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Original Title
Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis- Director: Dany Boon
- Writer: Dany Boon; Alexandre Charlot
- Producer: Claude Berri; Eric Hubert
CGiii Comment
Unfortunately, everything is lost in the translation...the comedy relies - wholly - on the regional dialects.
But...it was a huge hit in France.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti.
Cast & Characters
Kad Merad as Philippe Abrams;
Dany Boon as Antoine Bailleul;
Zoé Félix as Julie Abrams;
Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret as Raphael Abrams;
Anne Marivin as Annabelle Deconninck;
Philippe Duquesne as Fabrice Canoli;
Guy Lecluyse as Yann Vandernoout;
Line Renaud as La maman d'Antoine;
Michel Galabru as Le grand oncle de Julie;
Stéphane Freiss as Jean Sabrier;
Patrick Bosso as Le gendarme A7;
Jérôme Commandeur as L'inspecteur Lebic;
Alexandre Carrière as Tony - l'amoureux d'Isabelle;
Fred Personne as M. Vasseur;
Frank Andrieux as M. Leborgne