C'est pas moi, c'est l'autre
1962 Comedy   

 

Review
On the face of it, C’est pas moi, c’est l’autre seems to be a bizarre exercise in self-parody – a lacklustre comedy which ropes in the popular humourist Fernand Raynaud in the hope that this will be enough to attract a large audience.  Without Raynaud’s spirited contribution, the film would be a tedious, rather silly farce, typical of the kind of low brow comedy that entertained the masses in France in the late 1950s, early 1960s.  The value of this film is that it helps to preserve the memory of one of France’s most talented, most loved comic performers.   Fernand Raynaud appeared in several other films comedies, including La Bande à papa (1956)
and Auguste (1961).

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  Director: Jean Boyer
Starring: Fernand Raynaud, Jean Poiret, Micheline Dax, Geneviève Kervine, Fred Pasquali

Synopsis
Jean Duroc is the manager of a down at heel music hall troupe that is getting used to playing to empty theatres.  Duroc is on the point of giving up when he comes across Antoine Gaspard, a shy civil servant who is the exact likeness of the celebrated comedian Fernand Raynaud.   Reluctantly, Gaspard agrees to join Duroc’s troupe, in spite of the fact that he has no obvious talent as a performer...

Credits
  • Director: Jean Boyer
  • Script: Jean Boyer, Jacques Vilfrid
  • Photo: Jacques Robin
  • Music: Charles Aznavour, Georges Garvarentz
  • Cast: Fernand Raynaud (Fernand Raynaud), Jean Poiret (Jean Duroc), Micheline Dax (Paula), Geneviève Kervine (Monique), Fred Pasquali (L’imprésario), Michel Seldow (L’illusionniste), Robert Piquet (Le ténor), Henri Virlojeux (Pierjan), Charles Bouillaud (Le premier gendarme), Max Elloy (L’huissier)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 90 min; B&W



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