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L'Étrange Désir de monsieur Bard
1954 French film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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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
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