A Pain in the Ass (1973) ( L'emmerdeur )

A Pain in the Ass (1973) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: L'emmerdeur
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
83 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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

Directed By:
Edouard Molinaro

Written By:
Edouard Molinaro
Francis Veber

Actors:
Lino Ventura ..... Ralf Milan
Jacques Brel ..... François Pignon
Caroline Cellier ..... Louise Pignon
Jean-Pierre Darras ..... Fuchs
Nino Castelnuovo ..... Bellhop
Angela Cardile ..... La future maman
Michele Gammino ..... Louis Randoni
Xavier Depraz ..... L'inspecteur de l'hôtel
François Dyrek ..... L'auto-stoppeur
Jean-Louis Tristan ..... Le routier
André Valardy ..... Le boucher
Jean Franval ..... La patiente
Pierre Collet ..... Maître Chamfort
Arlette Balkis
Jacques Galland

Synopsis:

Proof of the success of French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro is the fact that several of his home-grown hits have been remade as American films. The most recent example of this is 1996's The Birdcage, a highly profitable reworking of Molinaro's La Cage aux Folles (1978). The director's 1973 comedy A Pain in the A... also went the Cage aux Folles route of enjoying worldwide popularity, then undergoing an Americanization process. In the Molinaro original, Lino Ventura plays a friendless hit man who holes up in an Italian hotel room, awaiting the opportunity to knock off his target, a mob witness. No sooner has Ventura drawn a bead on his would-be victim than he is interrupted by the comically suicidal Jacques Brel, who wants to jump from the open window in the assassin's room. The banter and byplay between Ventura and Brel is priceless, especially when veering towards the "sick" humor that Molinaro handles so well. Based on a play by Francis Veber, Pain in the A... was remade by Billy Wilder as Buddy Buddy (1978), with Walter Matthau as the hit man and Jack Lemmon as his unexpected guest.

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

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