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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie

1981-02-04 · 90 min · ★ 3.8

Comedy

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.

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Directors
Michel Gérard
Production companies
Le Goff Productions, les films Méric
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Bernard LavaletteBernard LavaletteColonel Varalin
Philippe BrizardPhilippe BrizardChief warrant officer Colin
Ariane CarlettiAriane CarlettiCéline
Hubert DeschampsHubert DeschampsMedical officer
Darry CowlDarry CowlColonel Boussardon
Philippe KlébertBenoît Leroy
Florent PagnyFlorent PagnyBaltar, nurse soldier
Isabelle de BottonIsabelle de BottonMrs. Colin, warrant officer's wife
Ticky HolgadoTicky HolgadoWarrant officer's neighbor (uncredited)
Michel BonnetMichel BonnetWarrant officer
Xavier DelucXavier DelucFred
Michel MelkiMichel MelkiCook
Sacha BriquetSacha BriquetRestaurateur
Gérard LoussineGérard LoussinePascal
Max MontavonMax MontavonMan from the hospital

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