Un singe en hiver
- Jean Gabin: Albert Quentin
- Jean Paul Belmondo: Gabriel Fouquet
- Suzanne Flon Suzanne Quentin
- Sylviane Margollé: Marie
- Gabrielle Dorziat: Victoria
- Hella Petri: Georgina
A monkey in winter is a French film directed by Henri Verneuil from the year 1962. It is based on the 1959 published, the novel by Antoine Blondin. The ajar because screenplay by François Boyer and Michel Audiard. The film describes how a former soldier of the French army, played by Jean Gabin, deals with his alcohol addiction. The second main role was filled by Jean -Paul Belmondo.
Action
The Albert Quentin hotel owner can not forget his time at the French expeditionary force in China easy. Every day he durchträumt the old adventure in alcohol intoxication. When his home town is bombed by the Allies, he promises his wife never to drink again. Years later he finds in Fouquet, one of his guests, a sympathetic cronies who understands him. They spend a lot of time together, which eventually culminates in a common drinking binge. After Albert and Fouquet leave the bar, where they attracted attention previously filthy behavior, Fouquet beats in the middle of the night before, pay his 10 - year-old daughter in a boarding school a visit as this there is unwell. Although the head opens, they put off if their condition but on the next day and sent them away. We will not stop, they organize the completion fireworks on the beach, in which all residents of the town awake, and sleep their noise in a cave on the beach.
The next morning, both go to the station, ready to go. Albert visited every year at this time his late father in the cemetery - Fouquet takes his daughter Marie home to Paris. In the train Albert tells little Marie a story from his time in China. Countless wild young orphaned monkeys were then collected by the Chinese, brought over the winter and exposed again the following spring.
Background
The scene in which Fouquet his daring bullfighting like movements performs the middle of a busy street, was inspired by Belmondo himself. In a similar situation, he had observed the author Antoine Blondin, whose novel was filmed here in Paris.
Both the production company and the French film Authority had initial concerns to present a film about two drunken men to the public, but finally gave way. The censorship also took exception to the good visibility of the spirits brands.
The film was shot in several municipalities in the department of Calvados ( Normandy ) in winter 1962.
Criticism
" The largely turbulent, in his attitude but contemplative and poetic film lives of a number of superb ideas and the high drama of his characters. "