DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR

| 1971 – 103′ – COMEDY, CLASSIC, PERIOD & HISTORY, FAMILY 14+, FILMS & LITERATURE.
Written by: Gérard Oury, Danièle Thompson, Marcel Jullian.
BAsed on the Book by: Victor Hugo.
Directed by: Gérard Oury.
Starring: Louis de Funès, Yves Montand, Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Alberto de Mandoza, Gabriele Tinti, Paul Préboist, Venantino Venantini.
Official Selection COLCOA 2016 (Restored Version, International Premiere)
In French with English subtitles.
A France Channel release. |

Directed by the French master of comédy Gerard Oury, Yves Montand is paired with comedic giant Louis de Funès in an historical spoof of the Victor Hugo play, Ruy Blas. De Funès plays Don Salluste, an irascible nobleman commissioned to collect taxes in the farthest reaches of the kingdom. In truth, the Queen has exiled him for his appalling wickedness and Salluste is now penniless, reduced to wandering the countryside with his loyal Black Knights in search of peasants to tyrannize. But Salluste has a plan to regain favor with the court, a cunningly simple plan: his valet Blaze (Montand), will simply seduce the Queen by impersonating Salluste’s idealistic cousin Don Caesar. At that point, Salluste will expose the Queen’s infidelity, and thus inspire the grateful King to simply reinstate Salluste’s privileges. Simple enough?

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