Alexandre le bienheureux

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Alexandre le bienheureux

Directed by	Yves Robert
Written by	Yves Robert
Starring	Philippe Noiret
Distributed by	Films de la Colombe Madeleine Films La Guéville
Release date(s)	February 9, 1968 February 17, 1969 December 21, 1973
Running time	100 min
Country	France
Language	French
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Alexandre le bienheureux (English: Blissful Alexander) is a 1968 French comedy film, directed by Yves Robert, starring Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert and Françoise Brion. This was comic actor Pierre Richard's second appearance on film, playing a secondary role toward the end of the plot.

The film has been released on DVD on May 4, 2004.

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Philippe Noiret plays a henpecked childless farmer that lives oppressed by his authoritarian and materialistic wife. When she and her relatives are killed in a car accident, he decides that it is time to take it easy and enjoy life a little, sets all his livestock free, and then practically disappears. The only clue that he is still alive is his dog, who periodically goes shopping to the closest town with a basket in its mouth. After several attempts, a delegation sent by the citizens finds he has retired —to his bed. This creates no small social upheaval in this working-class small French town where hard work is regaded as a virtue, and hence his attitude is viewed as a scandal and a menace.