Welcome to the Land of Ch'tis
Synopsis
Philippe Abrams is the director of the Salon-de-Provence post office. He's married to Julie, whose depressed state makes life impossible. To make her happy, Philippe plots to get transferred to the Côte d’Azur. But it backfires, and he is transferred to Bergues, a small town in northern France, instead.
For the Abrams, southerners through and through, the North is a ghastly, cold place inhabited by rustic folk, babbling on in an incomprehensible language, the language of the Sticks. Philippe will go alone. To his great surprise, he discovers a charming place, a warm team, and welcoming people. And he makes a friend: Antoine, the postman and village bell-ringer, with a possessive mother and a messy love life. When Philippe returns to Salon, Julie refuses to believe that he is happy up North. She even thinks that he's lying to smooth things over with her. To keep her satisfied and make life easier, Philippe allows her to believe that he is in fact living a nightmare in Bergues.
From then on, his life settles into a comfortable lie: he spends fifteen days having a ball with Antoine and his pals, and every other weekend, he is pampered by his wife who little by little becomes less depressed. All is going well, until the day that Julie decides to join Philippe in Bergues to help him survive the trials and tribulations she believes he's going through.
Philippe is obliged to admit to Antoine and his team that he has described them as barbarians to his wife. He begs them to behave as such to cover up his lie and to scare Julie into leaving quickly. Philippe's employees unwillingly lend themselves to the masquerade and put Julie through the worst trip of her life.
But Julie discovers what's going on...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (25)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Hirsch, Pathé Production
- Co-productions : TF1 Films Production, Les Productions du Ch'Timi, Pictanovo
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Pathé Films
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producers : Richard Pezet, Claude Berri
- Screenwriters : Franck Magnier, Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot
- Director of Photography : Pierre Aïm
- Music Composer : Philippe Rombi
- Assistant directors : Nicolas Guy, Louis-Julien Petit
- Editors : Luc Barnier, Julie Delord
- Sound recordists : Lucien Balibar, Stéphane Reichart
- Costume designer : Florence Sadaune
- Author of original work : Dany Boon
- Producers : Claude Berri, Jérôme Seydoux
- Line Producer : Éric Hubert
- Sound Assistant : Stéphane Vizet
- Production Manager : Bruno Morin
- Press Attachés (film) : Dominique Segall, Christopher Robba
- Sound editors : Franck Desmoulins, Roman Dymny
- Assistant editors : Célia Lafitedupont, Nelly Ollivault
- Continuity supervisor : Isabelle Perrin-Thevenet
- Production Designer : Alain Veissier
- Casting : Gérard Moulevrier
- Sound Mixer : François Groult
- Post-production supervisor : Virginia Anderson
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2007
- French release : 27/02/2008
- Runtime : 1 h 46 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 117.982
- Visa issue date : 07/02/2008
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 2.35
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
- Rating restrictions : None
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