Le Maître-Nageur (1978)
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Guy Marchand, Jean-Claude Brialy, Stefania Sandrelli, Moustache, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Benoît Ferreux, Christian Marquand, François Perrot, Serge Marquand
Seeking escape from modest circumstances, Marie gets her crooner husband a job with a billionaire, where he must face an unusual poolside challenge.
The story
Marie Mariani, an Italian immigrant’s daughter who works at a textile factory in northern France, dreams of escaping her modest circumstances. After marrying Marcel, a crooner she had dreamed about, she gets him hired as a lifeguard by billionaire Zopoulos, hoping for water and money. Marcel meets Zopoulos’s strange butler, Logan, who teaches him about the billionaire’s unusual ways. After Marcel loses at games to his employer, he must take part in a contest organized to repay his debt: staying in the swimming pool as long as possible.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Marie Mariani (Stefania Sandrelli), the daughter of Italian immigrants and an employee at a textile factory in northern France, marries Marcel (Guy Marchand), a crooner, after having dreamed about him. Wanting at all costs to escape her modest circumstances, she then gets him hired as a lifeguard by the billionaire Zopoulos, dreaming of water and lots of money. Marcel meets Logan (Jean-Claude Brialy), Zopoulos’s strange butler, who teaches him about the billionaire’s strange ways. After losing at games to his employer, Marcel has to take part in a contest organized by the billionaire to repay his debt: the challenge is to stay in the swimming pool for as long as possible...
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