Les surdoués de la première compagnie

Feb 4, 1981

1h 30m

★ 3.2

Overview

As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Le Goff Productions

les films Méric

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Cast

Colonel Varalin

Bernard Lavalette

Chief warrant officer Colin

Philippe Brizard

Céline

Ariane Carletti

Medical officer

Hubert Deschamps

Colonel Boussardon

Darry Cowl

Benoît Leroy

Philippe Klébert

Baltar, nurse soldier

Florent Pagny

Mrs. Colin, warrant officer's wife

Isabelle de Botton

Warrant officer's neighbor (uncredited)

Ticky Holgado

Warrant officer

Michel Bonnet

Fred

Xavier Deluc

Cook

Michel Melki

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