The Braggart (1976)

6.5/10 91 min Comedy

Overview

Lieutenant Gilles Castelet would have liked to marry like anybody else. But he has always been under the sexual spell of Colonel Popoti's wife. Once returned to civilian life he tries desperately to escape her, all the more as she is now widowed and she shamelessly chases him away. One day, Gilles meets Charlie, a former army buddy. His friend, sorry about what happens to him, undertakes to rid him of the possession he is under.

Cast

Michel Galabru

Lieutenant Gilles Castelet

Claude Melki

Charlie Caponi

Micheline Dax

Colonel Popoti

Carole Chauvet

Isabelle Popoti

Gilbert Servien

Authorizing officer

Yvonne Dany

Grocer

Ibrahim Seck

Sweeper

Alain Duhamel

Wounded man

Philippe Clair

French bus driver in India / voice of Gilbert Malki (uncredited)

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