The Little Bather
Le Petit Baigneur
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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Cast
Michèle Alexandre
as L'épouse du ministre
Philippe Dumat
as Le joueur de tambour de la fanfare
Max Montavon
as L'homme nu de la cabine (uncredited)
Andréa Parisy
as Marie-Béatrice Fourchaume
Pierre Dac
as Le ministre
Robert Rollis
as Un marin
Georges Adet
as Le gardien du chantier
Henri Génès
as Le paysan
Georges Bever
as Le majordome des Fourchaume (uncredited)
Claude Darget
as Le speaker de la course nautique (uncredited)
Nicole Vervil
as La mère du petit Francis
Hélène Dieudonné
as La garde-barrière
Pierre Tchernia
as Le président du jury (uncredited)
Louis de Funès
as Louis-Philippe Fourchaume
Franco Fabrizi
as Marcello Cacciaperotti
Gérard Calvi
as Le chef de la fanfare
Pierre Tornade
as Jean-Baptiste Castagnier, le gardien de phare
Michel Galabru
as Scipio
Robert Dhéry
as André Castagnier
Colette Brosset
as Charlotte Castagnier
Jacques Legras
as Henri Castagnier, le curé
