Le Distrait
- Pierre Richard Pierre Malaquet
- Marie -Christine Barrault: Lisa Gastier
- Bernard Blier: Alexandre Guiton
- Maria Pacôme: Glycia Malaquet
- Catherine Samie: Clarisse Guiton
- Micheline Luccioni: Madame Gastier
- Paul Préboist: Monsieur Klerdène
- Robert Dalban: Mazelin
- Romain Bouteille: Corbel
- Jacques Monod: Monsieur Malaquet, Pierre's father
- François Maistre: Monsieur Gastier
- Anne -Marie Blot: Véronique Gastier
The Airborne is a French comedy film from 1970 with Pierre Richard in the lead role, together with André Ruellan also wrote the screenplay for the first time and self- directed.
Action
The hopelessly scattered Pierre Malaquet drives as an employee of an advertising agency his boss with his crazy, sometimes macabre ideas regularly to despair. As agency owner Guiton is however in love head over heels in Pierre's mother, he has no choice but to deal with it further. Although Malaquet is always in charge at work with only the simplest of tasks, he cares for his exuberant, often clumsy way forever new complications and irritation even with high profile clients of the agency. So he ends up accidentally at a party in the house of the entrepreneur Gastier and entertains guests there initially on aufgelegtes joking, but the evening ends in disaster with substantial property damage.
Then Malaquet is banished into the remotest office of the agency. There he meets the equally scattered Monsieur Klerdène and developed for toothpaste manufacturers an advertising campaign that makes for quite a stir. Malaquets next advertising campaign with the slogan Clistax Bravo! solves even of riots on the streets of Paris, attracting a police operation by itself. As Malaquet the final arc spans and Guiton has to worry about the reputation of his agency and whose existence, he fires Malaquet without notice. This has now discovered his heart for Lisa, the secretary of his boss, and sets out on her to confess his love. Pierre's mother can Guiton finally persuaded to give her son another chance and send it along with Lisa to a branch of the Agency in the United States. On the way there Malaquet leaves just before starting again the machine. The film ends with a quote from Jean de La Bruyeres Caractères and shows a confused shuttling behind the aircraft Pierre Malaquet.
Background
The Airborne arrived in the French cinema in December 1970. With the comedy Pierre Richard made his breakthrough as a comedian. The film was only in August 1974 in the Federal Republic of Germany and was first broadcast on 8 February 1975 at the ARD program on television. In the opening and closing credits of the film completes each of the letter "I " in the form of a cartoon figure, the lettering with the names of its contributors.
Criticism
" A turbulent comedy in the tradition of slapstick comedies, the satirical takes the hype on the grain. With many gags, but here and there a bit dull and not without lengths. "