Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
- undercover
- espionage
- intelligence
- decoy
- mistaken identity
- violinist
- dress
- misunderstanding
- extramarital affair
- secret service
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Pierre Richard
François Perrin
Bernard Blier
Colonel Bernard Milan
Jean Rochefort
Colonel Louis Toulouse
Mireille Darc
Christine
- Paul Le Person — Perrache
- Jean Carmet — Maurice Lefebvre, Perrin's best friend
- Colette Castel — Paulette Lefebvre
- Maurice Barrier — Chaperon, Toulouse agent
- Robert Dalban — Coco, fake delivery man
- Robert Castel — Georghiu, Milan agent
- Jean Obé — Botrel, Milan agent
- Jean Saudray — Poucet, Toulouse agent
- Roger Caccia — Mr. Boudart, Milan agent
- Arlette Balkis — Mrs. Boudart, Milan agent
- Tania Balachova — Louis Toulouse's mother
- Directed
- Yves Robert
- Written
- Francis Veber, Yves Robert
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 497 ratings
- Studio
- Madeleine Films, Gaumont, Les Productions de la Guéville
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.
