Les quarantièmes rugissants (1982)
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Jacques Perrin, Julie Christie, Michel Serrault, Robin Renucci
After a leading sailor rejects his invention, marine-equipment engineer Julien Dantec decides to enter a solo, nonstop round-the-world race himself.
The story
Julien Dantec, an electronics engineer who specializes in marine equipment, hears that a major newspaper is organizing a solo, nonstop sailing race around the world. He hopes to equip Janvier, the race’s leading favorite, with a course-keeping device of his own design, but Janvier refuses. Disappointed, Dantec decides to enter the race himself. He needs money and a boat, and receives help from Barral, a journalist who offers to serve as his shore-based agent and manage the public-relations effort. Dantec’s ambitious project encounters trouble before it even properly gets underway: his boat continues to cause problems up to the last minute.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Julien Dantec, an electronics engineer specializing in marine equipment, learns that a major daily newspaper is organizing a solo, nonstop round-the-world sailing race. He offers to equip Janvier, the race’s leading favorite, with one of his inventions—a course-keeping device. But Janvier refuses, and Dantec, deeply disappointed, decides to take on the challenge himself: he will enter the competition. To secure funding and build his boat, Dantec is helped by a certain Barral, a journalist who offers to act as his shore-based agent and handle the public-relations side of the ambitious venture. Dantec, however, gets off to a bad start, as his boat continues to cause problems right up to the last minute...
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