The Annuity ( Le viager )

The Annuity (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le viager
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
French ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1972 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Pierre Tchernia

Written By:
René Goscinny
Pierre Tchernia

Actors:
Michel Serrault ..... Louis Martinet
Michel Galabru ..... Léon Galipeau
Claude Brasseur ..... Noël Galipeau à 39 ans
Rosy Varte ..... Elvire Galipeau
Odette Laure ..... Marguerite Galipeau
Jean-Pierre Darras ..... Emile Galipeau
Yves Robert ..... Bucigny-Dumaine (le bel officier)
Jean Richard ..... Jo (un voyou)
Madeleine Clervanne ..... La grand-mère Galipeau
Noël Roquevert ..... Le grand-père Galipeau
Jacques Bodoin ..... Maître Laguarrigue, l'honnête notaire
Gerard Depardieu ..... Victor, le complice de Jo
Bernard Lavalette ..... Le député-maire de Saint-Tropez
Claude Legros ..... Lucien, le brave facteur
Jean Carmet ..... Maître Vierzon, l'avocat de Noël

Synopsis:

This French comedy is the first feature film directed by the well-known television-director Pierre Tcherina. In the film, the most elaborate designs of a greedy family are unwittingly undone by an ailing old man. The family has made a complicated financial arrangement which will result in their owning the lovely resort villa the old man is living in, but until he dies they are obligated to let him continue living there. Actually, the old man wouldn't be there in the first place, but the family arranged for him to live there as they expected him to die at any moment. Instead, he lives through the Second World War and the years following, completely oblivious to their plots to do away with him; he is extremely grateful for their attentiveness and generosity, and is saddened as, one after another, they drop by the wayside.

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