Animal

Name: Animal
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1977-10-05
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Charles Gérard, Raymond Gérôme

L'Animal (1977)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

6.092/10
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7.827/10
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6.5/10
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Actors and characters

Release date

1977-10-05

Country

France

Production

Les Films Christian Fechner, Cerito Films

Genre

Comedy

Budget

Revenue

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Director

Claude Zidi

Actors

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval, Charles Gérard, Raymond Gérôme, Julien Guiomar, Aldo Maccione, Mario David, Henri Génès, Fred Personne
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Christian Fechner, René Malo

Operator

Claude Renoir

Composer

Vladimir Cosma

Artist

Théobald Meurisse

Audition

Editing

Monique Isnardon, Robert Isnardon
All team (20)

Short description

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.

What's left behind the scenes

It ranks 42nd in attendance among foreign films in Soviet cinema distribution.
Most of the stunts in the film were performed by Belmondo himself. This cost him numerous injuries: an ankle sprain after the scene on the steps of Sacré-Cœur, a dislocation and penetrating wound after the scene of rolling down the stairs, a bitten ear after the fight scene with the tiger. Since insurance companies refused to insure the aviation stunts, they had to be filmed last. Everything went without incident, and the actor was able to fulfill his childhood dream – to stand on the wing of a flying plane.