Le Maître-nageur
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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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (20)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Odyssey, Nadja films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Editions Montparnasse, Les Films du Loup
- French distribution : UGC Distribution
Full credits (15)
- Executive Producers : Serge Marquand, Humbert Balsan, Stéphane Tchalgadjieff
- Screenwriters : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Emion, Jean-Claude Emion, Robert Emion
- Director of Photography : Jean-Jacques Flori
- Music Composer : Guy Marchand
- Assistant directors : Patrick Grandperret, Jacques Faure, Pierre Wallon, Dominique Bonnaud
- Sound Recordist : Adrien Nataf
- Author of original work : Vahé Katcha
- Assistant Operators : Jean Clavé, Stephan Holmes
- Camera Operator : Frédéric Variot
- Production Manager : Yves Dutheil
- Sound Editor : Carole Marquand
- Continuity supervisor : Laurence Lemaire
- Foley artist : Daniel Couteau
- Make-up Artist : Florence Fouquier D'Herouel
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Maumont
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1979
- French release : 28/03/1979
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 50198
- Visa issue date : 23/03/1979
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
Box-office & releases
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