Piédalu in Paris (French: Piédalu à Paris) is a 1951 French comedy film directed by Jean Loubignac and starring Félix Oudart, Nathalie Nattier and Armand Bernard.Rège p.654Bessy & Chirat p.109https://www.unifrance.org/film/6828/piedalu-a-paris It was shot at the Photosonor Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Louis Le Barbenchon. It was one of a trilogy of films featuring the character Piédalu.
Synopsis Piédalu, a naive man from the countryside, travels to Paris in order to try and meet the Minister of National Renovation to submit plans for a new tax system to him. Instead he ends up in a music hall amidst a series of misunderstandings and has to return home without even seeing the government official. Fortuitously the minister has a car breakdown near Piédalu's village and he is at last able to meet him.
Cast Ded Rysel as Piédalu Félix Oudart as Le ministre de la Rénovation Nationale Nathalie Nattier as Gloria Lamar Armand Bernard as M. Finnois Jane Sourza as Mlle. Isabelle Jacques Berlioz as Le général Borodine as Olivier Raymond Cordy as L'huissier-chef Max Dalban as Étienne René Génin as Le curé René Hell as Le notaire Jean Kolb as L'évêque Charles Lemontier as Le préfet Julien Maffre as Le brigadier Georges Paulais as L'instituteur Germaine Reuver as Mme. Piédalu Micheline Valmonde as Madeleine Baudoin
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Bibliography Bessy, Maurice & Chirat, Raymond. Histoire du cinéma français: 1951-1955. Pygmalion, 1989. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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