This Monday, January 2, Arte is broadcasting the film The Troublemaker, a cult film from the 1970s directed by Édouard Molinaro with Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel. A famous French voice actor also took part in the film, but have you ever noticed?
Good year ! It’s time to say goodbye once and for all to 2022 and start this new year on the right foot. And to do this, what better than to watch a classic film from the 1970s? This Monday, January 2, the Arte channel is broadcasting the film The Troublemaker by director Édouard Molinaro with Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel and Caroline Cellier. The feature film is an adaptation of Francis Veber’s play entitled The contract dating from 1971 with Jean Le Poulain and Raymond Gérôme. It tells the story of Ralph Milan, a hitman who must by all means shoot down Louis Randoni from his hotel room window, whose testimony in a trial could harm his employers. However, at the same time in the next room, a certain François Pignon tries to commit suicide. With this dark comedy, it’s impossible to get bored!
The presence of a famous voice actor
Dubbing enthusiasts will probably not have missed this detail! In fact, in the movie The Troublemakera great French dubbing personality lent his voice to a character who does not actually appear on screen. This is Serge Sauvion, known for having dubbed the actor Peter Falk during his career and the character Colombo ! The dubber is the voice of the sponsor of the failed attack on the telephone. However, he was not credited for this performance, but for the dubbing of comedian Eric Vasberg who plays the rally driver. During his career, Serge Sauvion was also the French voice of Burt Reynolds (Issuance, full mouth) or even Burt Young (Paulie Pennino in the saga rocky). And for cartoon fans, he played Julius Caesar in Asterix and Caesar’s Surprise and Asterix among the Bretonsand was also the narrator in Taram and the Magic Cauldron.
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Jacques Brel’s last film
The Troublemaker is the last film in which the famous singer Jacques Brel, who died in 1978, shot. He was the first to have played François Pignon on the big screen, a character that spectators have found in many feature films by Francis Veber, writer of the play that inspired the film, as in the famous comedy the Dinner of idiots. The screenwriter later re-adapted his play in 2005, resulting in a new film also called The Troublemaker released in theaters in 2008, this time he directed with Patrick Timsit and Richard Berry to play the two main characters.