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7.2/10   3,528 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Marco Ferreri (scenario & adaptation) and
Rafael Azcona (scenario & adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
1 September 1973 (Sweden) more
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Plot:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
DVD Playhouse--July 2009
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La Grande Bouffe
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To Kill a Cat You Should Choke It with Cream more (34 total)

Cast

  (in credits order) (verified as complete)
Marcello Mastroianni ... Marcello
Michel Piccoli ... Michel
Philippe Noiret ... Philippe
Ugo Tognazzi ... Ugo
Andréa Ferréol ... Andrea (as Andréa Ferreol)
Solange Blondeau ... Danielle
Florence Giorgetti ... Anne
Michèle Alexandre ... Nicole
Monique Chaumette ... Madeleine
Henri Piccoli ... Hector
Maurice Dorléac
Simon Tchao
Louis Navarre ... Braguti
Bernard Menez ... Pierre
Cordelia Piccoli ... Barbara
Jérôme Richard
Patricia Milochevitch ... Mini
James Campbell ... Zack
Eva Simonet (as Eva Simonnet)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Giuseppe Maffioli ... (uncredited)
Rita Scherrer ... Anulka (uncredited)
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Directed by
Marco Ferreri 
 
Writing credits
Marco Ferreri (scenario & adaptation) and
Rafael Azcona (scenario & adaptation)

Francis Blanche (dialogue)

Produced by
Vincent Malle .... producer
Jean-Pierre Rassam .... delegate producer
 
Original Music by
Philippe Sarde 
 
Cinematography by
Mario Vulpiani 
 
Film Editing by
Claudine Merlin 
Gina Pignier 
 
Production Design by
Michel de Broin 
 
Set Decoration by
Claude Suné  (as Claude Sune)
 
Costume Design by
Gitt Magrini 
 
Makeup Department
Jacky Bouban .... makeup artist
Alfonso Gola .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Alain Coiffier .... production manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Enrico Bergier .... assistant director (as Enrique Bergier)
Rémy Duchemin .... assistant director
Jacqueline Ferreri .... assistant director (as Jacqueline Perrier)
François Lavigne .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Roger Jumeau .... property master
Maurice Sergent .... assistant set decorator
Michel Suné .... property master (as Michel Sune)
 
Sound Department
Jean Fontaine .... sound assistant
Michel Laurent .... sound assistant
Jean-Pierre Ruh .... sound engineer
 
Special Effects by
Paul Trielli .... special effects
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Jean-Louis Dastugue .... chief electrician
Jacques Dorot .... assistant camera
Yves Pouffary .... assistant camera
Bernard Prim .... still photographer
Pasquale Rachini .... camera operator (as Pascuale Rachini)
Ferdinand Roquet .... key grip (as Ferdinand Rocquet)
 
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Muriel Ghene .... wardrober
Geneviève Tonnelier .... wardrober
 
Editorial Department
Laurence Lemaire .... assistant editor
Monique Prim .... assistant editor
 
Music Department
Michel Piccoli .... musician: piano solo
Hubert Rostaing .... musical director
William Flageollet .... music engineer (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Annie Cabat .... production secretary
Ilya Claisse .... studio manager
Henri Laurent .... assistant studio manager
Volker Lemke .... assistant studio manager
Giuseppe Maffioli .... consultant: gastronomy
Claude Parnet .... assistant studio manager
Jacques Quelennec .... assistant consultant: gastronomy
Colette Suder .... administrator
Becuwe Thomselle .... cooking equipment
 
Crew believed to be complete


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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blow Out (UK) (DVD title)
Blow-Out (UK)
La grande abbuffata (Italy) (dubbed version)
The Grande Bouffe (USA)
The Great Feed (Europe: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated NC-17 for some explicit sexuality.
Runtime:
130 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
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Certification:
Germany:16 (re-rating) | Germany:18 (original rating) | New Zealand:(Banned) (original rating) | New Zealand:R18 (re-rating) | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Spain:18 | Argentina:18 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:(Banned) (1973-1974) | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:NC-17 (re-rating) (1998) | USA:X | France:-12 (re-rating)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
In the final scene in the garden - where Philipe is sitting on the bench, there is a poem by Dorothy Frances Gurney written on the bench. Many garden lovers have this poem written in their gardens. It says: "Kiss of the sun for pardon. Song of the birds for mirth. You're closer to God's heart in a garden than any place else on earth." more
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Spoofed in Ten Little Maidens (1985) more

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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
To Kill a Cat You Should Choke It with Cream, 2 November 2007
10/10
Author: JustApt from Russian Federation, Ivanovo

What can be a better protest against hedonism than to kill oneself in the most hedonistic way: to sate oneself with food and luxury and sex to death? So four old friends gather together in the luxuriant family villa belonging to the one of the participants and start devouring their way to exotic quietus, I should warn you though, the spectacle isn't for the hungry, and however difficult the task may seem it turns out to be quite feasible. What is the most great in this movie is its thick atmosphere of absurdity and surreality of everything happening on the screen and at the same time a verisimilitude of this occurrence. This movie also brilliantly managed to catch a zeitgeist of its epoch. At the time the film was announced to be a scandal of the year.

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