The Enemies (film, 1961)

the Enemies is a French police comedy, carried out by Edouard Molinaro in 1961.

Synopsis

A flight of secret documents was made with the embassy of Russia, in the office of Andre Smoloff, commercial attach3e. A team, including/understanding the captain Jean de Lursac and Vigo Curruci, takes the business in hands. Smoloff convened by Borgnine, agent of the Soviet Secret services, cannot prove its innocence to him. The investigation reveals quickly that Smoloff is very dependant with Lilia, saleswoman in a dressmaker in reputation. At the exit of the embassy, Smoloff is removed under the eyes of a Soviet agent which spun it. They find a former erased police officer, Gerlier, organizer of a spy network which made a success of the flight of the Soviet documents. But these documents are written in code and only Smoloff can give the translation of it. Lilia will be supervised by Christine, the concubine of Lursac. The vice of the French secret services is tightened. The French and Soviet police officers, after having fought with death, are combined to bore the mystery of the disappearance of Smoloff and arrive at the farm where Gerlier and its band sequestered Smoloff. While being run away, this last will be cut down but will die without to have betrayed. The inspectors stop Gerlier and Lursac learns that his/her Christine friend, who collaborated in the spinning mill, has just died on the road in an car accident…

Data sheet

Realizer: Edouard Molinaro
Scenario: According to the original work of Fred Noro a certain code (editions: Presses of the city)
Adaptation: Andre Tabet, Edouard Molinaro, François Nourissier
Dialogs: Andre Tabet
Production: Productions Beautiful Banks, the Sirius Films, Véga (France)
Directing of production: Jean Kerchner
Associate producer: Michel Ardan
Director of the photography: Louis Miaille
Operator: H. Martin
Decorations: Ruttinguer
Music: Martial Solal (editions Hydrangea)
Assembly: Gilbert Natot, assisted of Mr. Borhm
Year: 1961
Lasted: 85 minutes
Kind: Police comedy
First presentation the 2/9/1962

Distribution

Dany Carrel : Lilia Fromont
Roger Hanin: Jean de Lursac of the French service of information
Pascale Audret: Christine Janin, been engaged of Jean
Claude Brasseur: Vigo, an assistant of Jean
Claude Chabrol: the jogger with the whistle with the park
Jean Lefebvre: the doctor
Jacques Monod: Raoul Gerlier, the former police officer erased
Jeanne Aubert: Madam de Lursac, the mother of Jean
Georges Cusin: the commander
Jacques Esterel: the dressmaker
Michel Jourdan: Maurice
Billy Kearns: Mike Slatter
Charles Millot: Borghine
Nicole Mirel: Claudie, the mannequin
Michel Vitold: Andrei Smoloff, the Soviet commercial attach3e
Daniel Cauchy: Patrick Lemoine
Michel Ardan: Bobby
Louis Saintève: the customer who wants to return to the bar
Dominique Zardi: a man with the brewery
Yvon Sarray: the salesman with the chips
Edouard Molinaro: in love with the park
Pierre Collet: a man of Gerlier
Hake Drake: the person in charge of the FBI
Arlette Redon/Balkis
Nelly Benedetti: the woman of Rene
Colette Boiville
Alain Nobis: the director of the theater
Jacques Pierre
Raoul Saint-Yves: the owner of the bar
max Montavon
Daniel Damien
Jean-Claude Duverger
Ginger Hall
Pierre Parel

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