Cast

• Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
  
   - Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier
• Carole Bouquet
  Carole Bouquet
  Carole Bouquet is a French actress and fashion model, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1977. Bouquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France....
  
   - Carole Bouquet
• Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret
  Philippe Noiret was a French film actor.-Biography:Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study...
  
   - Philippe Noiret
• Josiane Balasko
  Josiane Balasko
  Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer and director.She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's Gazon maudit...
  
   - Herself
• Marie-Anne Chazel
  Marie-Anne Chazel
  Marie-Anne Chazel is a French actress and occasional screenwriter, who has been active in both film and television since 1974.-Biography:...
  
   - Marie-Anne Chazel
• Christian Clavier
  Christian Clavier
  Christian Clavier is a French actor. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier.-Biography:After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris —he started his acting career with the...
  
   - Christian Clavier
• Guillaume Durand
  Guillaume Durand
  Guillaume Durand, or William Durand, , also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende.-Life:He was born at Puimisson, near Béziers, of a noble family of Languedoc...
  
   - Guillaume Durand
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
  
   - Charlotte Gainsbourg
• David Hallyday
  David Hallyday
  David Hallyday is a French singer/songwriter and amateur sports car racer. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt and is the son of the French singers Sylvie Vartan and Johnny Hallyday....
  
   - David Hallyday
• Estelle Lefébure
  Estelle Lefébure
  Estelle Lefébure is a French actress and model. She was one of the top fashion models in the 1980s and 1990s. During her marriage with singer David Hallyday, she was known professionally as Estelle Hallyday....
  
   - Estelle Hallyday (as Estelle Hallyday)
• Gérard Jugnot
  Gérard Jugnot
  Gérard Jugnot is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc...
  
   - Himself
• Dominique Lavanant
  Dominique Lavanant
  Dominique Lavanant in Morlaix, Finistère, is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress, famous for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters, like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG , bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a...
  
   - Herself
• Thierry Lhermitte
  Thierry Lhermitte
  Thierry Lhermitte is a French actor, known for his comedic roles. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, and Michel Blanc...
  
   - Thierry Lhermitte
• Mathilda May
  Mathilda May
  Mathilda May is a French film actress.-Early life:May was born in Paris. Her father is playwright Victor Haïm, who is of Greek and Turkish descent. Her mother is Swedish ballet teacher and choreographer Margareta Hanson...
  
   - Mathilda May
• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
   - Himself
• Philippe du Janerand - Inspector
• François Morel
  François Morel
  François Morel is a Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music education. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec in 1994 and was awarded the Prix Denise-Pelletier in 1996...
  
   - Inspector's assistant
• Jean-Louis Richard
  Jean-Louis Richard
  -Biography:Born as Jean Marius Richard in Paris, Richard was Jeanne Moreau's first husband from 1949 to 1951.-Selected Filmography:* 2003 : Mister V. by Émilie Deleuze : Patrice Lemoigne* 2003 : Mauvais esprit by Patrick Alessandrin...
  
   - Psychiatrist
• Raoul Billerey - Michel Blanc's father

Awards

• 1994 Cannes Film Festival:
  • Best Screenplay
    Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Screenplay Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival...
    
    
  • Technical Grand Prize