Tartarin de Tarascon (1962)

Directed by

Francis Blanche

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boastful man from a small French town dreams of big game hunting in Africa. He sets off on a journey that leads to a series of comedic mishaps and exaggerations.

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What happens

Tartarin of Tarascon (French: Tartarin de Tarascon) is a 1962 French-Moroccan comedy film directed by and starring Francis Blanche alongside Alfred Adam, Jacqueline Maillan and Michel Galabru. It is based on the 1872 novel Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet, which had previously been made into a 1934 film of the same title. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and on location around Casablanca and Taroudant in Morocco. The film's sets were designed by the art director Louis Le Barbenchon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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