Gramps Is in the Resistance

1983 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Music / War

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IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 3712 3.7K

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Plot summary

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!

Director

Jean-Marie Poiré Photo
Jean-Marie Poiré

Top cast

Jean Carmet Photo
Jean Carmet as André Bourdelle
Thierry Lhermitte Photo
Thierry Lhermitte as Le colonel SS
Christian Clavier Photo
Christian Clavier as Michel Taupin
Dominique Lavanant Photo
Dominique Lavanant as Bernadette Bourdelle
720p.BluRay
977.16 MB
1280*544
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by stuka24 6 / 10

Puzzling comedy that makes you laugh but...

A stellar cast. A French comedy that actually makes you laugh. Politically incorrect. Could it be better?Yes, definitely yes. I felt since the beginning that this film was made by either a deranged mind or by a film student. The plot is erratic at best, it needs some heavy "editing". It'd never survived a "studio", for good and bad reasons. It's an original take on the French "resistance", although following all the clichés (the dumb Germans/ "Boches") follow 2 stereotypes: a) cultivated, full of mannerisms (a good Roland Giraud) and b) fat ugly dumb characters (Jacques Villeret, who has acted like God on "Diner des cons" and "Les Enfants du Marais") (Gérard Jugnot, who did well in a small role at "Bronzés 3"). The prejudices on gays and foreigners, like Ramírez (let alone Germans, but that's natural given the "genre").What really puzzled me was the last "act". Very "Theatre in theatre", I think that, hadn't it been there, the audience would have appreciated. But playing mind games, acting well and pretending to be witty must have allured them to make one take too many.A film with Brialy and Balasko in very secondary roles has to be perfect or it's a failure. This is not exactly perfect... Michel Blanc (!), a dazzling Dominique Lavanant (Soeur Therese)... there's not one actor who cannot star a good film.Lhermitte as a Nazi is funny if peculiar, Yanne as a collaborationist is just one of the sour role we know he does so well.Jacques Villeret did the scene I liked most, his musical "numero" of Von Apfelstrudel (!)'s feelings. Perfect (and very funny!). Look at the "coreography" with Nazi soldiers moving like starlets :).I'm glad I saw this film, I think it's rather "corageous" in some of its aesthetic decisions, but wouldn't recommend it without knowing the audience's tastes!
Reviewed by Rene-6 6 / 10

Rather dumb

It is never as good as "La grande vadrouille". Some scenes are funny, others just too dumb. Why do German officers talk in French (with a wrong German accent) among them ? They have an impressive cast, but that's pretty much all this French comedy about the German invasion has to offer.
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