Overview

A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.

Top Cast

Francis Blanche

Antoine Tartarin

Jacqueline Maillan

Mrs. Bézuquet

Michel Galabru

Barbassou

Alfred Adam

Prince Gregori of Montenegro

Camille Guérini

Victor Bombonnel

Paul Préboist

Costecade

Alain Bouvette

Fracca

Robert Porte

Bézuquet

Annick Tanguy

Baja

Hubert Deschamps

Ladévèze

Gaston Orbal

Bravida

M

Michel Emer

Pianist