Le petit baigneur (1968)
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Louis de Funès, Andréa Parisy, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Alexandre, Robert Dhéry
After firing a boat designer in anger, a shipyard director has one Sunday to persuade him to return while an Italian industrialist courts him.
The story
At the launch and blessing of The Unsinkable, a champagne bottle pierces its hull. Furious, shipyard director Louis-Philippe Fourchaume immediately fires designer André Castagnier, not yet knowing that Castagnier’s small sailboat, Petit Baigneur, has just won the Sanremo Regattas and Sailing Oscar in Italy. Once he learns of the awards and their commercial promise, Fourchaume has one Sunday, with his wife, to make amends and persuade Castagnier to work for him again. But Italian industrialist Marcello Cacciapuoti is already courting the inventor with a lucrative offer and has visited him at his family farm.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
During the launch and blessing of The Unsinkable, the pride of the Fourchaume shipyards, its hull is pierced by the traditional champagne bottle. Beside himself, the company director Louis-Philippe Fourchaume (Louis de Funès), son of the shipyard’s founder, immediately fires the boat’s designer, André Castagnier (Robert Dhéry), before Castagnier has even had time to tell his boss that another of his creations—a small sailboat with a revolutionary hull, named Petit Baigneur—has just won the “Sanremo Regattas” and the “Sailing Oscar” in Italy. Once informed, and tempted by the commercial prospects of such a success, Fourchaume has one Sunday, together with his wife (Andréa Parisy), to try to make up for his mistake and persuade Castagnier to work for him again. But the inventor is already being courted by Marcello Cacciapuoti (Franco Fabrizi), an Italian industrialist who offers him a fortune and has also come to visit him at the farm where André Castagnier lives with his brothers, Henri, the village priest (Jacques Legras), and Jean-Baptiste, the lighthouse keeper (Pierre Tornade), and his sister Charlotte (Colette Brosset), who is married to the local brass band’s bugler (Michel Galabru)…
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