Les joyeux lurons

Les joyeux lurons

82 mins | Comedy | Nov. 22, 1972

Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...

Les joyeux lurons

82 mins | Comedy | Nov. 22, 1972

Les joyeux lurons
Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...
Producers Europrodis, Les Activités Cinégraphiques, M.G. Productions
Original title Les joyeux lurons
Directors Michel Gérard
Writers Michel Gérard, Vincent Gauthier

Cast

Alice Sapritch

as Léonie, la bonne du curé

Paul Préboist

as Le curé Paccard

Michel Galabru

as Le chanoine Bossuet

Philippe Clay

as L'abbé Larivière

Vincent Gauthier

as Patrick

Rachel Cathoud

as Laurence

Jeannette Batti

as La patronne de boîte

Jacques Balutin

as L'abbé Fénelon