After having highlighted Molière (through a traveling theatrical show) in 2022 and La Callas in 2023, the Somme Departmental Council is launching into the year of De Funès (110 years after his birth) with a series of cinema screenings in outdoors. The premiere takes place this Friday, May 24.
Louis De Funès has no less than 140 films, more than 270 million people in theaters, more than 400 million viewers in France
To make the most of your movie night, remember to bring your throws, blankets and cushions!
9 open-air cinema events in the Somme
Megalomania
Friday May 24, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Village square
80800 FRANVILLERS
1h45
Cabbage soup
Friday May 31, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Multipurpose hall park
80200 CLÉRY-SUR-SOMME
1h38
The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Friday June 7, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Village Hall Park
80210 AIGNEVILLE
1h36
The Saint-Tropez Gendarmes
Friday June 14, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Place du Friez
80120 VRON
1h30
The big mop
Friday June 28, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Multipurpose room square
80640 HORNOY-LE-BOURG
2h02
The Grand Restaurant
Friday July 5, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Village hall square
80750 FIENVILLERS
1h25
Discord
Friday July 19, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Multipurpose room square
80190 CURCHY
1h37
The Miser
Friday July 26, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Village square
80160 FLERS-SUR-NOYE
2:05
Wing or thigh
Friday August 2, 2024 at 9:30 p.m.
Village square
80300 MILLENCOURT
1h44
The 9 films of De Funès chosen
- Megalomania
- Don Sallust takes advantage of his functions as Minister of Finance for the King of Spain to extort money from the people. But the Queen, who hates him, succeeds in chasing him from court. Drunk with revenge, he decides to compromise her. His nephew Don César having refused to get involved in the plot, it is ultimately Don Salluste’s valet, Blaze, overcome with love for the sovereign, who will play the role of Prince Charming. Unfortunately, through misunderstandings, he only manages to attract the favors of the unprepossessing Dona Juana.
Le Glaude and le Bombé, two old peasants inclined to drink, live withdrawn from modern life. One night, an extra-terrestrial lands in a flying saucer in Glaude’s garden. As a token of welcome, the latter offers him a bit of his famous cabbage soup…
- The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Victor Pivert, an irascible and fundamentally xenophobic businessman, goes to Paris for his daughter’s wedding. Victim of a minor road accident, he crosses paths with dangerous terrorists who are preparing to eliminate a revolutionary leader named Slimane…
- The Saint-Tropez Gendarme
Following a promotion, Constable Cruchot leaves his small provincial village to take up his new role in the commune of Saint-Tropez. His only daughter, the charming Nicole, is overjoyed and soon makes a host of new “yé-yé” friends while getting into some serious trouble, while Cruchot actively takes the lead in difficult and delicate operations. …
In 1942, an English plane was shot down by the Germans over Paris. The three pilots parachute and land in different places in the capital.
Septime runs his “grand restaurant” with great attention. Located on the Champs-Elysées, his establishment receives the most illustrious guests. When a head of state is kidnapped from his restaurant, Septime is first delighted by this publicity, then outraged by the police intrusions….
An ambitious industrialist, Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze expands his depollution equipment factory, thereby destroying the garden of his wife Bernadette, a horticulture enthusiast. Determined to take revenge on her husband, she leaves the marital home and runs against him in the municipal elections.
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, has a son, Cléante, and a daughter, Elise. The latter is in love with Valère, who finds no other solution to get closer to his beloved than to be hired by his father as a steward. Cléante, for his part, loves Marianne, a young woman without any fortune whom Harpagon also wants to marry. The old bourgeois decides to marry his daughter to Lord Anselm because he agrees to make her his wife without a dowry…
- Wing or thigh
- Charles Duchemin, the director of a gastronomic guide who has just been elected to the Académie Française, finds himself a major adversary in the person of Jacques Tricatel, the CEO of a chain of restaurants…
From Funès in a few dates
July 31, 1914: birth of Louis de Funès de Galarza, known as Louis de Funès, in Courbevoie (92), son of Carlos Luis de Funès de Galarza and Leonor Soto Reguera.
1932: enters the Technical School of Photography and Cinema (cinema section), which became the École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière
1942: enrolls in Cours Simon
1952: joins the Branquignols troupe, directed by Robert Dhéry
Acted in more than 140 films, including:
1957
The Crossing of Paris, by Claude Autant-Lara
1963
Pouic-Pouic, by Jean Girault
1964:
The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez, by Jean Girault
Fantômas, by André Hunebelle
1965
The Gendarme in New York, by Jean Girault
Le Corniaud, by Gérard Oury
Fantômas goes wild, by André Hunebelle
1966
The Great Vadrouille, by Gérard Oury
The Grand Restaurant, by Jacques Besnard
1967
Oscar, by Édouard Molinaro
The Great Holidays, by Jean Girault
The Little Bather, by Robert Dhéry
Fantômas against Scotland Yard, by André Hunebelle
1968
The Gendarme is getting married, by Jean Girault
1969
Hibernatus, by Édouard Molinaro
1970
The Gendarme on a stroll, by Jean Girault
The Man Orchestra, by Serge Korber
1971
Jo, by Jean Girault
Madness of grandeur, by Gérard Oury
On a perched tree, by Serge Korber
1973
The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, by Gérard Oury.
The film was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975.
1976
The Wing or the Thigh, by Claude Zidi
1978
La Zizanie, by Claude Zidi
1979
The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials, by Jean Girault
1980
Plays Harpagon in L’Avare, which he co-directed with Jean Girault.
Receives an honorary César for his entire career.
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Cabbage Soup, by Jean Girault
1982
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes, by Jean Girault
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January 27, 1983: death in Nantes (44)
July 31, 2019: opening of the Louis de Funès museum, in Saint-Raphaël (83)
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