Pétrole! Pétrole! (1981)
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Jean-Pierre Marielle, Henri Guybet, Catherine Alric, Bernard Blier, Charles Gérard, Michel Modo, Bernard Musson
An emir asks his unscrupulous oil-trading client to find the daughter he has never met, whose husband is a small-scale importer competing with major companies.
The story
Emir Abdullah, a powerful Arab oil exporter, comes to France to meet Jean-Marie Tardel, his biggest customer and the unscrupulous head of G.A.P., the leading fuel-oil importer. Abdullah tells Tardel he has no heir and asks him to find the daughter he fathered while studying in Paris but has never met. She knows nothing about her father and is married to Bernard Bérian, a garage owner who also imports oil on a small scale. Bernard struggles against major companies such as Tardel’s.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A powerful Arab oil exporter, Emir Abdullah (Bernard Blier), comes to France to meet his biggest customer, Jean-Marie Tardel (Jean-Pierre Marielle), the highly unscrupulous CEO of G.A.P., the leading company importing fuel oil. During their meeting, the emir tells him that he has no heir. He then asks him to find a daughter he fathered while studying in Paris and has never met. As it happens, his daughter (Catherine Alric), who knows nothing about her father, is married to garage owner Bernard Bérian (Henri Guybet). Bernard is also a small-scale oil importer, who has to fight hard against major companies like Tardel’s. As soon as the young woman’s identity is revealed, a ruthless struggle begins, bringing together oil interests and rival factions within the emir’s court.
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