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Claude Gensac has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s.
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This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Louis de Funès, Claude Rich, Agathe Natanson

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Dir. Claude Zidi · With Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michel Galabru
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Ferdy Mayne, Martine Kelly

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Bernard Alane

The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love....
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Geneviève Grad

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Dir. Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Jean Lefebvre, Guy Grosso
The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven’t spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. Based on Molière’s play.
Dir. Louis de Funès, Jean Girault · With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Dir. Richard Berry · With Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Marina Foïs
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