Schpountz fernandel biography
Bourvil biography
Le Schpountz!
Synopsis
A young grocer’s clerk with a bit of a penchant for mythology, Irénée is convinced that he will become a famous actor.
He meets a film crew that tells him a cruel joke.
Schpountz fernandel biography
He arrives at the studios full of hope…
“Schpountz” means simple-minded. As we would say in Marseille: he is a “fada”, we can say: he is a “schpountz”…
“When you make people laugh on stage or on screen, you don’t lower yourself, on the contrary.
Laughing at those who come back from the fields, with their big hands so hard that they can’t close them anymore, those who come out of the office with their little chests that don’t know the taste of air anymore, those who come back from the factory, with their heads down, their nails broken, with black oil in the cuts of their fingers…
To make all those who will die laugh, to make all those who have lost their mother, or who will lose her, laugh…
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