Tartarin de Tarascon

The story

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.

Cast

F Francis BlancheAntoine Tartarin J Jacqueline MaillanMrs. Bézuquet M Michel GalabruBarbassou A Alfred AdamPrince Gregori of Montenegro C Camille GuériniVictor Bombonnel P Paul PréboistCostecade A Alain BouvetteFracca R Robert PorteBézuquet A Annick TanguyBaja H Hubert DeschampsLadévèze G Gaston OrbalBravida M Michel EmerPianist

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M Maryse PailletBerthe Fracca J Joe SentieriSinger in the train carriage R Raoul AndréLocomotive engineer Y Yvan AudouardPorter B BourvilPriest who reinflates the tire of his moped D Darry CowlMan broken down in the desert J Jean RichardDirector of the 'Mitaine' circus R Raymond DevosMotorist R Roger PierreScout J Jean-Marc ThibaultScout G Georges de CaunesRadio reporter H Henri SalvadorGamekeeper who shoots himself in the foot A Albert HuguesTholosan, cafe owner I Ibrahim SeckOwner of the blind lion E Edith FontaineJeanne, maid A Aïta Vitton T Tayeb Saddiki