Le Tracassin ou Les Plaisirs de la ville is a French comedy film directed by Alex Joffé, released in 1961.
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Plot
The stress of urban living, his sister's new baby and problems with his desire to move in with his girlfriend, the beautiful Juliette, push André to take too many euphoric pills made in the laboratory where he is employed.
Production
Direction: Alex Joffé, assisted by D. Mage, F. Boucher, B. Chesnais
Screenplay and adaptation: Jean Bernard-Luc, Alex Joffé
Script: Jean Bernard-Luc
Photography: Marc Fossard; Paul Rodier and Serge Rapoutet (operators)
Sound: René Sarazin
Editing: Eric Pluet
Music: Georges Van Parys (éditions Manèges)
Song: Puisqu'on s'aime, lyrics by Bernard Dimey (éditions Pathé Marconi)
Scenery: Rino Mondellini; Gabriel Béchir
Make up: Janine Jarreau
Hair: Henry Prévost
Production: Pierre Cabaud, René Bézard
Production company: Les Films Raoul Ploquin, Pathé Cinéma
Distribution company: Consortium Pathé
Format: Black and white - 35 mm - 1,37:1 - Monoaural sound (recorded by Poste Parisien
Principal photography: Studios « Franstudio »
Prints: Laboratoire G.T.C de Joinville
Genre: Comedy
Length: 103 minutes
Premier: 20 December 1961
Cast
Bourvil: André Loriot, laboratory worker
Pierrette Bruno: Juliette, André's mistress
Maria Pacôme: Madame Gonzalès, the doctor's mistress
Rosy Varte: restaurant patroness
Micheline Luccioni: Jeannette, waitress on the restaurant
Mireille Perrey: The boss of the Babylis shop
Yvonne Clech: Music teacher
Dominique Davray: Loriot's concierge
Françoise Deldick: A walker
Léo Campion: Monsieur Van Hooten
Armand Mestral: Doctor Clairac, boss of André and Juliette
Jean-Paul Coquelin: A policeman
Harry-Max: Monsieur Crollebois, the locksmith
Charpini: The hairdresser
Mario David: Sports coach
Teddy Bilis: The client at table 8
Lucien Guervil: Another policeman
Jean-Marie Proslier: The neighbour (role cut in editing)
Étienne Bierry: The policeman in front of the foreign embassy
Maurice Garrel: A traffic policeman
About the film
The rarely used word "tracassin" was reactivated by Charles de Gaulle in a speech on 2 October 1961.
Awards
The 1961 Prix Courteline was awarded to Bourvil for his interpretation of the "tracassé" (the bothered).