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Country
Production
Budget
$11 000 000
Box office
$245 144 417
Director
Actors
Kad Merad, Dany Boon, Zoé Félix, Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret, Anne Marivin, Philippe Duquesne, Guy Lecluyse, Line Renaud, Michel Galabru, Stéphane Freiss
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Claude Berri, Jérôme Seydoux, Eric Hubert
Camera operator
Pierre Aïm
Composer
Artist
Alain Veissier
Audition
Gérard Moulévrier, Elise Leire
Editing
Luc Barnier, Julie Delord
Whole Team (23)
Whole Team (23)
Short description
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
What's left behind the scenes
- Having collected a record 25.5 million euros in its first week of release, the film surpassed the previous record holder – the 2006 film 'Funny Games'.
- In France, the film was seen by 20.5 million people, which also became a record since the 1966 film 'The Great Stroll' with 17.3 million viewers.
- The film's director, Dany Boon, played one of the main roles.
- The film vividly and comically depicts the use of the Picard dialect, also known as 'chtimi', which is incomprehensible to people from southern France. The film's popularity has caused a real tourism boom in Bergues.
- Having collected a record 25.5 million euros in its first week of release, the film surpassed the previous record holder – the film 'Fun and Sun'.
- The film set a national attendance record that stood for 42 years, surpassing the film 'The Great Walk'.
- The film comically depicts the use of the Picard language by locals, unintelligible to southerners. The film's popularity caused a tourism boom in Bergues.
- Grossing a record 25.5 million euros in its first week of release, the film surpassed the previous record holder, "Fun Size".
- The film set a national attendance record, which stood for 42 years, surpassing "The Great Walk".
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