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Le Schpountz (1938)

Comedy | 160 minutes
2,90 5 votes

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 160 minuten

Alternative title: Heartbeat

Country: France

Directed by: Marcel Pagnol

Stars: Fernandel, Orane Demazis and Léon Belières

IMDb score: 7,4 (894)

Releasedate: 15 April 1938

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Le Schpountz plot

We meet a film crew in front of a young man's house. This young man sees a lot of promise in his career as an actor, but the members of the film crew mostly laugh at him. After signing a fake contract, he goes to Paris to launch his career.

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Irénée Fabre

Oncle Baptiste Fabre

Casimir Fabre

Clarisse Fabre

Bogidar Glazunoff

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houbi

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For those who love time: I saw the restored version in theaters yesterday. It's 127 minutes long.

Pagnol rails against the world of the seventh art, but concludes—typically Pagnolian—on an optimistic note. Fernandel is a naive village boy who wants to be a movie star, falls for a film crew's prank, is cruelly disappointed, but ultimately finds fame.

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Filmkriebel

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Many years ago, I watched a series of Fernandel films on a French-language channel. Every Sunday evening, I'd end the weekend with a Fernandel. Le Schpountz was one of them, and I thought it was such a wonderful film. I had to put it on again.

It's a more theatrical film with delicate, almost musical dialogue and, above all, magnificent acting; note the expressions and the delivery of the dialogue. Compared to today's young actors who simply rattle off lines without expression, this was truly top-notch work. This was still a time when actors still had to prove themselves through a career in theater.

Pagnol has created a film about film, in which the industry primarily attracts snobs and big egos. A naive villager is treated like a "Schpountz" by a film crew that happens to pass by his uncle's shop, a naive person who thinks he'll make it as an actor; however, Irénée believes so strongly in his magnificent talent that the joke spirals out of control. Besides the comedy, there's also tragedy, expressed in a wonderful dialogue between Fernandel and Demazis.

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