L'emmerdeur (1973)

Original title

L'Emmerdeur

Directed by

Édouard Molinaro

Genre

comedy film, buddy film

Country

France, Italy, Belgium

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

12

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 254 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A contract killer waits in a hotel room for his target. His plan goes wrong when a suicidal salesman in the next room keeps interfering. The killer must keep the salesman alive to avoid drawing police attention.

darkly comicabsurdfrustratingunpredictabletensewryclaustrophobic

What happens

L'emmerdeur (literally The Troublemaker, with the English title of A Pain in the Ass, often promoted as A Pain in the A__) is a 1973 French-Italian black comedy film, starring Jacques Brel, appearing in his tenth and final feature film. Directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starring Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras, L'emmerdeur is an adaptation of Francis Veber's 1971 play Le contrat. In the film, a contract killer waits for his intended victim at a hotel room, but his plan is accidentally thwarted by the suicidal salesman occupying the neighboring room. He resorts to prevent the salesman from committing suicide, in fear that the suicide would cause a police search in the hotel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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