Le Magnifique ( Come si distrugge la reputazione del più grande agente (The Magnificient Secret Agent) ) ( How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent )

Le Magnifique (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Come si distrugge la reputazione del più grande agente (The Magnificient Secret Agent)
Alternate Title: How to Destroy the Reputation of the Greatest Secret Agent
Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
French ( Mono )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Commentary
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Philippe de Broca

Written By:
Philippe de Broca
Vittorio Caprioli

Actors:
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Bob Saint-Clair/François Merlin
Jacqueline Bisset ..... Tatiana/Christine
Vittorio Caprioli ..... Karpof/Charron
Hans Meyer ..... Colonel Collins
Monique Tarbès ..... Mrs. Berger
Mario David ..... Pilu
Bruno Garcin ..... General Pontaubert
Raymond Gérôme ..... The electrician
Jean Lefebvre ..... The plumber
Fabrizio Moresco ..... Le vendeur
André Weber ..... Interpreter
Hubert Deschamps ..... Publishing House Hostess
Bernard Musson ..... The Chinese/The Bride
Thalie Frugès
René Barrera

Synopsis:

Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can meet in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.

François Merlin (Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy 'Bob Sinclar' (The name of the character is never seen written in the movie, while some people write his name 'Saint-Clar' the way it is pronounced in French sounds like Sinclar.) Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a sociology student who lives in Merlin's building and is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination she becomes Tatiana, his paramour, while the pompous and rich publisher of his novels, Pierre Charron (Vittorio Caprioli), doubles as the great villain of the spy novels, the Albanian secret services head Karpov, who in a memorable scene of the film threatens to cut off one of Tatiana's breasts. Christine is clearly fascinated with the handsome spy Bob Sinclar, an unrealistic and idealized hero, who is the very opposite of his creator: a clumsy, frustrated man who barely makes enough money to get by. However, when she is befriended by the rich and vain publisher who looks down upon his poor hack writer, she realises her mistake, and after a party where he tries to seduce her, she flees him and falls asleep on the landing outside the writer's flat, where he finds her in the morning, clad apparently only in a T-shirt and embraces her for a happy ending. In the final scene, Merlin throws over the balcony his last manuscript, freeing himself from his character and his imaginated life.

Le Magnifique (literally The Magnificent) is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels. François Merlin (Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy 'Bob Sinclar' (The name of the character is never seen written in the movie, while some people write his name 'Saint-Clar' the way it is pronounced in French sounds like Sinclar.) Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a sociology student who lives in Merlin's building and is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination she becomes Tatiana, his paramour, while the pompous and rich publisher of his novels, Pierre Charron (Vittorio Caprioli), doubles as the great villain of the spy novels, the Albanian secret services head Karpov, who in a memorable scene of the film threatens to cut off one of Tatiana's breasts. Christine is clearly fascinated with the handsome spy Bob Sinclar, an unrealistic and idealized hero, who is the very opposite of his creator: a clumsy, frustrated man.

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