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(France) Comedy directed by Ariel Zeitoun (Bimboland)
Cast: Michel Boujenah, Gérard Depardieu, Elsa Zylberstein, Gina Lollobrigida
Plot: (from Variety) Set in the Jewish garment district in Paris. Alain (Boujenah) hopes to take over his Jewish father's ready-to-wear clothing store and counteract all of the Chinese businesses opening in the old neighborhood. Alain is courting high-maintenance Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Arlette's father, David (Maurice Chevit), learns that an old peasant in the Auvergne has died. The deceased once sheltered both David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich), now a wickedly wily diamond dealer on New York's West 47th Street, from the Nazis, so the two men, plus Arlette and Alain, head into the rustic depths of Catholic France for the funeral. There they meet the dead man's strapping son, Jean Bourdalou (Depardieu), who runs the family's restaurants in Pads. The flighty Arlette falls, improbably, for Jean, sending Alain crying back to his mother (Lollobrigida). After a few plot twists back in Paris, Jean and Alainteam up to open a fashion restaurant in New York.
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