Fucking Fernand (1987)
Directed by Gérard Mordillat

War / Comedy
aka: Fucking Ferdinand

Film Synopsis

At the time of the Nazi Occupation, Fernand Le Bâtard, one of the wealthiest men in France, lives amongst nuns at the Institut du Bon Pasteur.  From the age of eight, Fernand has been completely blind and he has only one idea in his head: to find a woman so that he can at last discover the pleasures of the flesh.  As luck would have it, his path crosses that of a murderer on the run, André Binet, who will help to make his dream a reality, by taking him to a brothel run by Lotte...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Gérard Mordillat
  • Script: Jean Aurenche, Véra Belmont, Gérard Mordillat, Walter Lewino (novel)
  • Cinematographer: Jean Monsigny
  • Music: Jean-Claude Petit
  • Cast: Thierry Lhermitte (Fernand), Jean Yanne (Andre Binet), Marie Laforêt (Lotte), Martin Lamotte (Lafouine), Hark Bohm (Von Schaltz), Michèle De Bonnerive (Francoise), Renee Cariven (La mère supérieure), Paul Mark Elliott (Philip), Claude Evrard (Mercier), Eléonore Hirt (Madame Vincent), Isabelle Maltese (Irène), Lionel Rocheman (Le maire), Patrick Paroux (Le préposé), Jacques Pater (Camier), Pascal Pistacio (Le curé), Pascale Roberts (Marie-Thérèse), Catherine Therouenne (Agnès), Patrice Valota (Vigneault), Zabou Breitman (Une prostituée), Charlotte Valandrey (Lily)
  • Country: West Germany / France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Aka: Fucking Ferdinand

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