Chouchou
Synopsis
Chouchou, a young North African, passes himself off as a Chilean exile fleeing the dictatorship to illegally enter France.
He is taken in by Father Leon, responsible for a parish in a Parisian suburb.
Although Chouchou’s real identity is quickly found out, Father Leon bears him no ill will and even scores him a receptionist and cleaning job with a psychoanalyst, Nicole Milovavich.
Divided between his stormy living situation with Brother Jean and his work, Chouchou gets caught up in a fantastic world totally new to him. Little by little, he begins to fit in and even starts making breakthroughs. He goes to Paris’s Clichy neighborhood in search of his nephew and finds him in a cabaret, The Apocalypse, where he is a torch singer called Vanessa. Chouchou rejoices, because he is also occasionally a transvestite, and soon he is one of the gang.
He meets Stanislas, a regular client of The Apocalypse, and it’s love at first sight.
Chouchou basks in happiness until the day Lieutenant Grégoire ap...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (27)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Films Christian Fechner
- Co-production : France 2 Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Warner Bros. (France)
- News agency (France) : B.C.G.
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Christian Fechner
- Screenwriters : Merzak Allouache, Gad Elmaleh
- Director of Photography : Laurent Machuel
- Music Composers : Germinal Tenas, Gilles Tinayre
- Editor : Sylvie Gadmer
- Sound recordists : Paul Lainé, Gérard Rousseau, Stéphane Reichart
- Costume designers : Fabienne Katany, Ricardo Martinez-Paz
- Line Producer : Jean-Louis Nieuwbourg
- Voice-over : Axelle Laffont
- Production Manager : Jean-Louis Nieuwbourg
- Press Attachés (film) : Myriam Bruguière, Olivier Guigues
- Continuity supervisor : Lucie Truffaut
- Production Designer : Sylvie Deldon
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
