Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- French
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
- new york city
- prisoner
- airport
- paris
- france
- red hair
- liberation of prisoners
- mistake in person
- jewry
- revolution
- hearing
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Louis de Funès
Victor Pivert
Suzy Delair
Germaine Pivert
Marcel Dalio
Rabbi Jacob
Claude Giraud
Mohamed Larbi Slimane / Rabbi Zeiligman
- Renzo Montagnani — Farès
- Janet Brandt — Tzipé Schmoll
- André Falcon — Minister
- Xavier Gélin — Alexandre
- Henri Guybet — Salomon
- Popeck — Moishe Schmoll
- Miou-Miou — Antoinette Pivert
- Denise Provence — Esther
- Jacques François — General
- Claude Piéplu — Divisional Commissioner Andreani
- Georges Adet — Old Levi
- Directed
- Gérard Oury
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 1,081 ratings
- Studio
- Horse Film, Les Films Pomereu, SNC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
