10 best comedies by Louis de Funes that you want to watch again and again

On July 31, 1914, the unsurpassed Louis de Funes was born. The famous French actor, who starred in more than 130 films, left an indelible mark on the history of cinema. Immerse yourself in a world of fun and enjoy the magnificent skill of this actor, which continues to live in the hearts of fans!

In Yves Robert's film “If Not Caught, Not a Thief,” Louis de Funes played the role of the cunning market trader Blaireau. Having permission to sell mushrooms, he secretly catches and sells fish - the demand for it is too high. The gendarmes repeatedly try to catch the poacher, but he escapes every time. One day one of the gendarmes is attacked. Naturally, suspicion falls on Blairot. He is sent to prison. And then the real criminal is revealed. The role of Blairot brought Louis de Funes real popularity and recognition from the audience.

Soviet viewers knew Lou de Funes primarily as Commissar Juve from the films about Fantômas. Despite the fact that Fantômas himself is a cruel and sinister character, Andre Hunebel's trilogy with Jean Marais as Fandor turned out to be funny and light, because it was a parody of the classic series of films about Fantômas.

Initially, it was planned that there would be more films, but the leading actors opposed this idea - Louis de Funes was tired of the stupid Commissioner Juve and wanted to do something else, and Jean Marais was tired of portraying a puppet from film to film.

Another long-running project of Louis de Funes is a serial film about the adventures of the simple-minded but diligent gendarme Louis Cruchot. For 18 years, Louis de Funes did not part with this character! During this time, six sparkling comedies were filmed, each of which enjoyed the tender love of the audience. It is interesting that the final film about the French gendarme, “The Gendarme and the Gendarmes,” released in 1982, was also the last film in which Louis de Funes starred.

The French-Italian comedy "Razinya", awarded an honorary diploma at the Moscow International Film Festival, tells the story of a simple-minded and endearing Parisian traveling salesman Antoine Marechal, who wanted to go on a trip to Italy in his modest little car. But at the very first intersection, the Rolls-Royce of businessman Leopold Saroyan crashes into him. The businessman gives the traveler a luxury convertible as compensation.

Delighted, Antoine continues on his way. But Saroyan is not the kind of person who will just give such generous gifts. The car is literally filled with gold and drugs, and the unsuspecting Antoine is simply used as a courier. And now he has two warring gangs of gangsters on his tail. The role of Antoine is played by... no, not Louis de Funes, but another French actor - Bourville. But the gangster Leopold is everyone’s favorite good-natured comedian.

In Jacques Benard's comedy “Mr. Septim's Restaurant,” Louis de Funes plays the director of one of the most respectable restaurants in Paris, where a demanding audience gathers every day: aristocrats, politicians, and officials. Monsieur Septim himself is an extremely demanding and exacting person. The restaurant has replaced everything for him, even his personal life, so he wants his brainchild to always be on top. The employees are tired of his daily nagging.

But one day the restaurateur’s attention turns to a strange incident: right during lunch, the president of a southern country disappears without a trace. Now, in order to save the establishment’s reputation, Septim is forced to personally participate in the investigation.

It was a crazy day for the hero of Louis de Funès, the major industrialist Bertrand Barnier. Early in the morning, the manager comes to him and demands to increase his salary - he, they say, is getting ready to get married. And not on anyone, but on the daughter of Barnier himself - the lovely Colette. Colette, in turn, is in love with the driver Oscar, but is ready to marry even the first person she meets, since she is not Barnier’s daughter at all. Barnier's maid announces that she is quitting and becoming a baroness. And when a suitcase filled with jewelry is mixed into the case, it seems that no one can unravel this tangle of incredible events. In 1991, a remake of the Oscars starring Sylvester Stallone was released, which was also highly appreciated by viewers.

Once again Louis de Funes plays the role of the father. And again the children give him problems. The eldest son Philippe fails the English language exam, so his father, the director of the prestigious private school Monsieur Bosquier, sends him to the UK, to a respectable English family. In the meantime, the guy is away, an English schoolgirl, Shirley, who needs to improve her French, will come to the Bosquier family. But Philip has completely different plans for the summer - instead of himself, he sends his friend to the UK, and he, taking an English girl, goes with his friends on a summer trip on a yacht. The deception is revealed, and Monsieur Bosquier goes in search of the fugitives, because Shirley's father can come for his daughter any day.

Louis de Funes has always been lucky to play the roles of wealthy industrialists. That time he got the role of manufacturer Hubert de Tartas. An enterprising businessman lives happily with his wife and son, while simultaneously thinking about how to strengthen his position in the factory, which their family inherited from his wife’s father. But suddenly the wife’s grandfather, who was found at the Pole after lying in a block of ice for 65 years, bursts into the measured existence of the family like an icy whirlwind. In order not to traumatize the grandfather, the whole family is trying to dramatize the life of the early 20th century around the old man. And the grandfather, having thawed out a little and settled into the family, begins to care for his son’s fiancee.

Foreign tycoon Henri Rubier (Louis de Funes, of course) returns by car from Italy. On the way, he picks up two passengers - a young man hitchhiking and a girl whose car has broken down. At night on a mountain road, Rubier loses control of the steering and runs off the road. The next morning, passengers discover that the car is stuck in the branches of a tree growing over a cliff... Interestingly, the actor’s son, Olivier de Funes, starred in the role of the young man. This was his last film. Having played in several films with his father, Olivier realized that he did not want to follow in his footsteps. He left cinema and became a passenger pilot.

Who, if not Louis de Funès, should have played Harpagon in the film adaptation of Jean-Baptiste Molière's immortal play "The Miser" of the same name. The great comedian managed to make the unbearable miser Harpagon a rather sweet, although overly stingy and eccentric character.

The plot of the picture is simple - Harpagon has a son, a daughter and a chest of gold. And he had already decided the fate of all three of them long ago. A son should marry a rich, middle-aged widow, a daughter should marry an equally middle-aged, but no less rich old man, who is ready to give up a dowry for the sake of the girl. The chest should be buried in the ground forever, warming Harpagon's soul. But the children of hoarders have completely different plans - they already love other people. The chest will help them unite with their beloved, because if Harpagon does not allow the children to be happy, his treasure, hidden by a cunning servant, will never return to him.