Le Sucre (or The Sugar) is a 1978 French crime comedy film directed by Jacques Rouffio. The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974.
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Plot
Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming man, into taking his wife's inheritance and using it to speculate on the recent rise in sugar prices. Raoul is able to pry more money away from Adrien when he shows him how much his first, more conservative speculations have made. But the con-man is taken in by his own con, for Raoul has also entered the sugar market, using every bit of money he can scrape together. When the market turns around, they are both in trouble.
Cast
Jean Carmet as Adrien Courtois
Gérard Depardieu as Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Michel Piccoli as Grezillo
Nelly Borgeaud as Hilda Courtois
Georges Descrières as Vandelmont
Roger Hanin as Karbaoui
Marthe Villalonga as Madame Karbaoui
Claude Piéplu as President Berot
Pierre Vernier : Latoussaint
Maurice Chevit as Lomont
Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Mimine
Jean-Paul Muel as Pergamont
Tony Taffin as Flanqué
Jean Champion