The Big Restaurant
| The Big Restaurant |
| Directed by |
Jacques Besnard |
| Produced by |
Gaumont International |
| Written by |
Jean Halain
Louis de Funès
Jacques Besnard |
| Starring |
Louis de Funès
Bernard Blier |
| Music by |
Jean Marion |
| Release date(s) |
7 September 1966 (France) |
| Running time |
85 minutes (France)
82 minutes (Germany) |
| Country |
France |
| Language |
French/German |
The Big Restaurant (French: Le Grand Restaurant), is a French comedy thriller film from 1966, directed by Jacques Besnard, written by Jean Halain and Louis de Funès, starring Louis de Funès and Bernard Blier. The film is known under the titles: "The Big Restaurant" (International English title), "What’s Cooking in Paris" (USA), "El gran restaurante" (Spain), "Das große Restaurant" (East Germany), "Oscar hat die Hosen voll" (West Germany), "Chi ha rubato il presidente?" (Italy).[1]
Cast
- Louis de Funès : Mr. Septime, boss of a big Parisian restaurant
- Bernard Blier : the Chief Superintendent
- Maria-Rosa Rodriguez : Sophia, the secretary of the president Novalès
- Paul Préboist : the wine steward of the restaurant
- Venantino Venantini : Enrique
- Folco Lulli : Mr. Novalès, le président sud-américain
- Noël Roquevert : the minister
- Raoul Delfosse : Marcel, the leader cook
- Max Montavon : the violinist and the customer who declares "Oh, c'est pas cher du tout!"
- Roger Caccia : pianist
- Pierre Tornade : maître of hotel
- Guy Grosso : waiter
- Michel Modo : Petit-Roger, another waiter
- Juan Ramirez : general
- Maurice Risch : a garçon of the restaurant
- Jean Ozenne : the second maître of the hôtel
- Jacques Dynam : a waiter
- Paul Faivre : the blotted customer
- André Badin : a diner with the minister
- Frédéric Santaya : a conspirator
- Eugène Dekker : the accomplice of Novalès
- Marc Arian : a diner
- Roger Lumont : a diner
- Olivier de Funès
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