Fantôme avec chauffeur
France
1996
78 Min
Color
1.85:1
French
Synopsis
Georges Morel, chauffeur to the wealthy industrialist Philippe Bruneau-Teissier, is gunned down by unknown assassins just after he discovers he has won a fortune on the national lottery. A short while later, his employer is also killed, by his unscrupulous business partner, Édouard Martigues. The two murdered men find themselves still in the land of the living – but, as ghosts, can only observe, not involve themselves in what they see. Morel is appalled to find that his girlfriend has a secret lover, who is intent on recuperating the lottery money, whilst Teissier is preoccupied with his son and bringing Martigues to justice. If only the two dead men could find some way to communicate with the living… —filmsdefrance
Director
Gérard Oury
Gérard Oury (29 April 1919, Paris – 20 July 2006, Saint-Tropez) was a French film director, actor and writer. His real name was Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum.
The son of Serge Tannenbaum, a violinist, and Marcelle Houry, a journalist, Oury studied at Lycée Janson de Sailly and at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. He became a member of the Comédie-Française just one year before World War II, but fled to Switzerland to escape the anti-Jewish laws decreed by the Vichy government.
After 1945 he re-started his career as an actor, performing in the theatre and in supporting roles in the cinema. Oury became a movie director in 1959 (The Itchy Palm) and gained his first success in 1961 with Crime Does Not Pay (Le crime ne paie pas).
Joining André Bourvil and Louis de Funès as a comic duo, he burst into commercial filmmaking with 1965’s The Sucker (Le corniaud). The following year, Don’t Look Now… We’re Being Shot At! (La Grande Vadrouille) was even more successful… read more
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