In the spring of 1973 Jacques Brel went on to film "L'emmerdeur" in Castries, Montpellier and Saint-Jean de Vedas.
The director is Francis Veber from his play "Le contrat".
Starring Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier and Jean Pierre Darras.
Remake in 2008, still directed by Francis Veber
Whether in L'emmerdeur, Le Diner de Cons or Les Compères, the hero of all Verber's films is François Pignon.
Jacques Brel is a great François Pignon.
Miraculously escaping an attack, Louis Randoni understands that they want to prevent him, at all costs, from testifying in a series of trials.
This failed attempt will provoke the arrival and installation at Ralph's "Palais" hotel of a professional killer charged with shooting him with a rifle with a sniper rifle.
But his preparations to carry out his mission are disrupted by Pignon, his room neighbour, a shirt-dressed representative, who, abandoned by his wife, attempts suicide.
Ralph will no longer be able to get rid of Pignon, despite his best efforts. It is the meeting of two solitudes and the discovery of friendship, through a series of misadventures and misunderstandings that lead the honest man to prison for preventing a crime. But friendship cannot be commanded: the killer and the suicide candidate cannot leave each other.
Filming Secrets
The accordion notes are those of Marcel Azzola, Jacques Brel's accordionist on Vesoul ("Chauffe, Marcel!").
The hotel is actually an apartment building located at 10 rue Foch.
This is the last film released in the cinema with Jacques Brel in the credits, but not his last film (which is Le Far West, of which he is also the director, and which came out in May 1973).
The voice of the person who ordered the failed attack on the telephone was that of Serge Sauvion. An actor specialized in dubbing, he was among others the famous voice of Lieutenant Columbo.
