L'animal (1977)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Claude Zidi

Writers:

Michel Audiard (dialogue)
Michel Audiard (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 October 1977 (France)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Romance

Plot:

A movie about a good-for-nothing stuntman called Mike Gaucher who can't do one single job without something going wrong...

Plot Keywords:

Stuntman | Film In Film | Film Making | Stuntwoman | Paris

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo	...	Mike Gaucher et Bruno Ferrari
Raquel Welch	...	Jane Gardner
Dany Saval	...	Doris
Raymond Gérôme	...	Le comte de Saint-Prix
Jane Birkin	...	La vedette féminine
Johnny Hallyday	...	La vedette masculine
Yves Mourousi	...	Himself
Charles Gérard	...	Hyacinthe
Claude Chabrol	...	Le metteur en scène
Mario David	...	Santos, le Gitan
Henri Génès	...	Camille, le patron du bistrot
Julien Guiomar	...	Fechner
Aldo Maccione	...	Sergio Campanese
Jacques Alric	...	Le maître d'hôtel
Henri Attal	...	Un assistant

Also Known As:

Stuntwoman
The Animal

Runtime:

100 min | USA:91 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:AL (orginal rating) | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:11 | West Germany:6

Filming Locations:

116 - Lido de Paris, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris 8, Paris, France

Company:

Cerito Films

Trivia:

After a couple of under performing movies (by Belmondo's high standards anyway), he returns with this movie which was the 5th highest grossing movie of its year in France.

Movie Connections:

References 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

fun Belmondo movie with stunning Raquel

This movie is a lot of fun,i watched it when i was a kid when it came out in Europe and i remember laughing in several scenes.I don't know how Belmondo's style translates to American audiences but to the rest of the world he was a big star when this movie came out and made a fantastic duo with Raquel.Raquel Welch always had a good flair for comedy and this material allows her to show her abilities.Here she is supposed to be a stunt-woman,partnering stuntman Belmondo in films and wanting to get married and she is really a lot of guts and fun.Belmondo plays the stuntman and a second role as a gay film star who resembles the stuntman. Belmondo is on his turf here and delivers.There was a lot of publicity about the stunts in this movie.Almost all of them performed by Belmondo himself,especially impressive a flying stunt where Belmodo is standing on-top of a flying plane.This movie is a good showcase for both Belmondo and Raquel.