L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard

L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard
Directed by Géza von Radványi
Produced by Union générale cinématographique (France)
Written by Géza von Radványi
René Barjavel
Starring Michel Simon
Louis de Funès
Music by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald
Cinematography Léonce-Henri Burel
Edited by René Le Hénaff
Distributed by A.G.D.C.
Release date
 4 January 1954 (France)
Running time
 108 minutes
Country France
Language French

L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard (English: The Strange Desire of Mr. Bard), is a French drama film from 1954, directed by Géza von Radványi, written by Géza von Radványi, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.[1]

Plot

Auguste Bard is a bus driver who lives alone because women don't find him attractive. He suffers with a heart condition and eventually he is told by his doctor that he has only a short time left to live. He decides to take an early retirement. Then he wins a huge amount of money at a casino and can afford to pay the professional dancer Donata to keep him company.

Cast

  • Michel Simon: Auguste Bard
  • Yves Deniaud: Antonio
  • Geneviève Page: Donata
  • Georgette Anys: Julie
  • Louis de Funès: Monsieur Chanteau
  • Paul Demange: the nervous doctor
  • Paul Frankeur: the priest
  • Geneviève Page: Donata Francescati, the dancer
  • Henri Crémieux: Ernest, the grocer
  • Henri Arius: the commissioner
  • Lucien Callamand: the notary
  • Emma Lyonel: the directrices
  • Colette Ricard: Béatrice, the daughter of Julie and Ernest
  • Jacques Erwin: the bailiff at the casino
  • François Carron: the doctor at the maternity ward
  • Maurice Bénard: the casino manager
  • Yvonne Claudie: Caroline
  • Félix Clément or Jean Clément: the first doctor
  • Michel Gerbier: the little boy
  • Claude Ermelli
  • Colette Ravel
  • Jacques Robin

References

  1. ↑ L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard on IMDb


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