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Le maître-nageur

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Original title

Le maître-nageur

Year

1979

Running time

90 min.

Country

France

Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Screenwriter

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Emion, Jean-Claude Emion, Robert Emion

Cast

Music

Jean-Jacques Flori

Cinematography

Henri Lanoë

Producer

Nadja Films, Odyssey

Genre

Comedy

Synopsis

Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon. However, the latter, a potbellied John Blunt, does not really want to learn how to swim, all the more as he is (or seems to be) stuck in a wheelchair. In fact all that cruel Count Zaroff type wants is a submissive man in order to make him his plaything. Indeed Marcel soon finds his role at the villa is to be manipulated and humiliated by Zopoulos, the puppet-master who plays God, assisted to perfection in his disgraceful task by Logan, his stylish, ignominious butler...

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Le maître-nageur

1979

Jean-Louis Trintignant