La Carapate is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury.
Plot In May 1968, Jean-Philippe Duroc, a lawyer accused of ultra-leftism, visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison. Gaulard takes the opportunity and, stealing the clothes of his lawyer, achieves to escape. The police is convinced that Duroc has contributed at the evasion and the two men are wanted by all the police stations of France.
Cast Pierre Richard ... Maître Jean-Philippe Duroc, lawyer of Martial Gaulard Victor Lanoux ... Martial Gaulard, the accused, fascist and anti-soixante-huitard Raymond Bussières ... Marcel Duroc, vieux père de Jean-Philippe Jean-Pierre Darras ... Jacques Panivaux, the Bourgeois Yvonne Gaudeau ... Gisèle Panivaux, the Bourgeoise Jacques Frantz ... Rocheteau Claire Richard ... Blanche Hirondelle "Bach Yen", the Vietnamese fiancée of Gaulard Blanche Ravalec ... Marguerite Claude Brosset ... Gustave Bernard Granger ... Jeannot Éric Desmaretz ... the judge Katia Tchenko ... the prostitute Bruno Balp ... Gaston Buteau Janine Souchon ... Josette Buteau Christian Bouillette ... Dupuis Alain Doutey ... the inspector Robert Dalban ... the bar owner Henri Poirier ... brigadier CRS
Release The film was released 10 years after the May 1968 events in France.
Bibliography (reprinted by Presses Pocket in 1989, , and by Plon in 1999, )
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