Tartarin de Tarascon
Tartarin de Tarascon
A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
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Ibrahim Seck
as Owner of the blind lion
Gaston Orbal
as Bravida
Georges de Caunes
as Radio reporter
Henri Salvador
as Gamekeeper who shoots himself in the foot
Jacqueline Maillan
as Mrs. Bézuquet
Camille Guérini
as Victor Bombonnel
Yvan Audouard
as Porter
Roger Pierre
as Scout
Alfred Adam
as Prince Gregori of Montenegro
Paul Préboist
as Costecade
Bourvil
as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
Francis Blanche
as Antoine Tartarin
Michel Galabru
as Barbassou
Robert Porte
as Bézuquet
Annick Tanguy
as Baja
Hubert Deschamps
as Ladévèze
Joe Sentieri
as Singer in the train carriage
Darry Cowl
as Man broken down in the desert
Raymond Devos
as Motorist
Jean-Marc Thibault
as Scout
Jean Richard
as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
Alain Bouvette
as Fracca
Tayeb Saddiki