San-Antonio (2004)

Director:

Frédéric Auburtin

Writers:

Frédéric Dard (novels)
Laurent Touil-Tartour (writer)

Release Date:

21 July 2004 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Action

Plot:

While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier...

Plot Keywords:

Paris France | Italian Woman | Based On Novel

Cast

Gérard Lanvin	...	Antoine San-Antonio
Gérard Depardieu	...	Lieutenant Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier
Lucy Harrison	...	La masseuse
Patrick Médioni	...	Van Gogh
Valeria Golino	...	L'Italienne / The Italian woman
Marc Faure	...	Son Excellence
Michèle Bernier	...	Berthe Bérurier
Marie-Thérèse Arène	...	Félicie
Bill Barclay	...	L'Écossais
Nick Hobbs	...	Lord Kensington
Michel Galabru	...	Achille, le chef de la police (chief of police)
Vanessa Guedj	...	La soubrette
Robert Hossein	...	Le ministre de l'intérieur / The Minister
Guilhem Pellegrin	...	Le secrétaire de l'Elysée
Jérémie Renier	...	Toinet San-Antonio (San-Antonio's son)
Elisabeth Margoni	...	La première dame / The First Lady (as Elizabeth Margoni)
Barbara Schulz	...	Marianne
Richard Chevalier	...	Le gendarme Elysée
Marion Roussel	...	La bikeuse
Patrick Bordier	...	Le camionneur
Eriq Ebouaney	...	Jérémie Blanc
Tony Gaultier	...	L'agent de la sécurité de l'Élysée
Jean-Michel Meunier	...	Le chef cuisinier
Wilfred Benaïche	...	Le chef de la sécurité
Virginia Anderson	...	La jeune conductrice
Michel Pilorgé	...	Le planton
Luis Rego	...	Pinaud
Jean-Roger Milo	...	Mathias
Delphine Zentout	...	L'assistante de Mathias
Affif Ben Badra	...	Le Brésilien (as Ben Badra)
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	M. Chapon
Peter King	...	Le majordome
Cyrielle Clair	...	Mme Chapon
Jacques Spiesser	...	Le docteur Hubert
Jean Leloup	...	Le garçon d'étage
Régis Romele	...	Le marin suisse
Maryam d'Abo	...	Margaux
Armelle	...	Célestine Fitting
Henri Garcin	...	Le banquier suisse / The Swiss Banker
Fabrice Bagni	...	Le garde Seagull
Jorn Cambreleng	...	La sentinelle Seagull
Matthew Géczy	...	Le soldat Seagull
André Thorent	...	Célestin-Marie Chapon
Jurgen Mash	...	Un vieux prisonnier / The old prisoner
Patachou	...	Ruth Booz
Élodie Hesme	...	La journaliste
Jean Dell	...	Le journaliste
Michel B. Dupérial	...	Chico / Son cousin brésilien (as Michel Dupérial)
Yeleen Bronco Soares	...	Rosa (as Yeelen Branco Soares)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dada	...	Un garde républicain (uncredited)
Jean-François Deniau	...	Le président de la République (uncredited)
François Guillaume	...	Le président du Brésil (uncredited)
Victor Loukianenko	...	Victor, le garçon d'étage / Victor, the floor-waiter (uncredited)
Abdul Popoola	...	Jérémie Blanc Double (uncredited)

Directed by
Frédéric Auburtin

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Frédéric Dard		novels and characters (as San-Antonio)
Laurent Touil-Tartour		writer

Produced by
Claude Berri	....	producer
Timothy Burrill	....	co-producer
Pierre Grunstein	....	executive producer
Nathalie Rheims	....	associate producer
Jaime A. Schwartz	....	line producer
Laurent Touil-Tartour	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Jean-Yves d'Angelo

Cinematography by
Willy Stassen

Film Editing by
Guy Lecorne

Casting by
Gérard Moulévrier

Production Design by
Christian Marti

Art Direction by
Karen Wakefield

Set Decoration by
Ann Chakraverty

Makeup Department
Turid Follvick	....	key makeup artist (as Turid Follvik)
Sarah Guetta	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Virginia Anderson	....	assistant production manager
Georges Barrier-Carron	....	assistant unit manager
Nick Clark	....	unit manager
Sébastien Delepine	....	unit manager trainee
Sébastien Didelot	....	trainee unit manager
Eric Hubert	....	production manager
Bruno Morin	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Matthew Baker	....	second assistant director: UK
Jerome Borenstein	....	first assistant director
Matthieu de la Mortière	....	second assistant director
Claire Galloy	....	assistant director: location
Anne Pinheiro Guimarães	....	first assistant director
Laurent Herbiet	....	first assistant director
Frederic Imbert	....	third assistant director
Ariane Lacan	....	third assistant director
Thierry Mauvoisin	....	first assistant director
Emmanuel Murat	....	second assistant director
Gigi Soares	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Sophie Couderc	....	property master
Emmanuelle Cuillery	....	assistant art director
Richard Field	....	stand-by art director
Alain Gosse	....	first assistant production designer
Kathy Heaser	....	graphics/art department assistant
Mark Hedges	....	dressing propman
Frédéric Jourdan	....	carpenter
Sonja Klaus	....	set decorator: UK
Stanislas Reydellet	....	assistant art director
Nic Stubbings	....	dressing props
Névil	....	storyboard artist (uncredited)

Sound Department
Vincent Breau	....	second boom operator
Hervé Buirette	....	sound re-recording mixer
Bernard Chaumeil	....	boom operator
Pascal Chauvin	....	foley artist
Pierre Gamet	....	sound
François Groult	....	sound mixer
Pedro Marques	....	synchronization sound engineer
Eric Mauer	....	sound editor
Jacques Pibarot	....	sound
Marianne Roussy	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Richard Conway	....	model unit supervisor
Richard Conway	....	special effects supervisor
Sam Conway	....	special effects floor supervisor
Peter Haran	....	special effects technician
Graham Riddell	....	miniature special effects technician
Simon Weisse	....	senior modeller
Simon Weisse	....	special effects crew
Mark White	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Pierre Blain	....	digital compositor
Fabien Coupez	....	digital compositor
Olivier Debert	....	digital compositor
Jacques Delzescaux	....	digital compositor
David Maund	....	grip: model unit
Frederic Moreau	....	visual effects supervisor
Peter Talbot	....	models cinematography

Stunts
Alain Barbier	....	stunts
Jean-Marc Bellu	....	stunts
Christian Bergner	....	stunts
Alain Cadouard	....	stunts
Jean Chesneau	....	stunt driver
Gilles Conseil	....	stunt coordinator
Jean-Jacques Desplanque	....	stunts (as Jean-Jacques Desplanques)
Grégory Feurté	....	stunts
Jean Girard	....	stunts
Pascal Guégan	....	stunt coordinator
Jean-Claude Lagniez	....	stunt driver
Michel Norman	....	stunt driver
Frédéric North	....	stunt helicopter pilot
Hernan Ortiz	....	stunt double
Peggy Pere	....	helicopter stunt coordinator
Gaëlle Cohen	....	stunts (uncredited)
Gregory Loffredo	....	stunts (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Loïc Andrieu	....	Steadicam operator
Luis Armando Arteaga	....	second assistant camera
Julian Bucknall	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera, UK
Mathieu Caudroy	....	Steadicam operator
Patrick de Ranter	....	Steadicam operator
Steven Desbrow	....	aerial camera operator
James Foster	....	second assistant camera: UK
Michel Galtier	....	focus puller
Silvia Gangemi	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Eugene Grobler	....	electrician
Cyril Kuhnholtz	....	key grip
Sébastien Leclercq	....	first assistant camera
David Maund	....	key grip: model unit
Adrian McCarthy	....	grip: UK
Pedro Moraes	....	video assist operator: second unit
Karl Morgan	....	focus puller
Mark Morley	....	crane grip
Edgar Moura	....	director of photography: additional photography
Jorge Moviola	....	first assistant camera: second unit
Vincent Plaidy	....	focus puller
Rupert Power	....	Steadicam operator
Pedro Serrão	....	second assistant camera: second unit
Dean Thompson	....	first assistant camera: "b" camera, UK
David Toft	....	video operator: UK
Roger Tooley	....	Steadicam operator: UK
Jacob Barrie	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera, UK (uncredited)

Casting Department
Evy Figliolini	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Claire Lacaze	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
Nicolas Criqui	....	digital conformation
Franck Nakache	....	assistant editor
Philippe Reinaudo	....	digital intermediate technical director
Raymond Terrentin	....	colorist

Music Department
Cyrille Aufort	....	orchestrator
Edouard Dubois	....	music consultant

Other crew
Jacqueline Edwards	....	production coordinator: UK
Segolene Fleury-Slimane	....	production accountant
Sasha Harris	....	production coordinator: UK
Polly Hope	....	assistant production coordinator
Jonathan Hopkins	....	assistant to producer, UK
Richard Hyland	....	production accountant: UK
Yann Le Borgne	....	location scout
John Nixon	....	armorer
Gary Pickering	....	location manager
Ashton Radcliffe	....	location scout
Hélène Sebillotte	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• Hirsch
• Pathé Renn Productions
• TF1 Films Production (co-production)
• Core Films Ltd. (co-production)
• Napoléon Première (co-production)
• Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) (participation)
• Canal+ (participation)

Distributors

• Pathé (France) (theatrical)
• DNC Home Entertainment (2005) (Italy) (DVD)
• FF Film & Music (2005) (Hungary) (all media)

Other Companies

• Aerial Camera Systems  helicopter gyrostabilized camera system
• Focus Films  production services
• Mad Dog Casting  extras casting
• Vehicles in Vision  Action Vehicles Supplier (U.K.)

Also Known As:

Spy Zone (Italy) (DVD title)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

France | Italy | UK

Language:

French | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Bude, Cornwall, England, UK

Company:

Hirsch

Trivia:

The fourth adaptation of San-Antonio novels, after _Sale temps pour les mouches (1966) ()_, Béru et ces dames (1968), San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça (1981).

Excellent !

this is a fair adaptation of Frederic Dard's novels, most certainly beyond the understanding of a foreigner without a deep knowledge of the French culture. Too bad for them, but very good for an avid San-Antonio reader that want to put some pictures on typical characters found in the books.

Don't even think to compare San-Antonio with James Bond. San-Antonio is the archetype of a rude and sexual obsessed French macho, not your usual Jaaaames. He is just like that in the books, no need to adapt the character to be politically correct for all cultures and viewers. Read the books first, that will help to understand what all this is about.

9/10 for a lot of fun while watching this movie. Please watch it in Widescreen, and in French; subtitles are your friends.