Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté (1988)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Claude Lelouch

Writer:

Claude Lelouch (written by)

Release Date:

30 November 1988 (France)

Genre:

Drama | Adventure | Comedy

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo	...	Sam Lion
Richard Anconina	...	Albert Duvivier, dit Al
Lio	...	Yvette, 1ère femme de Sam
Béatrice Agenin	...	Corinne, dernière femme de Sam
Marie-Sophie L.	...	Victoria, fille de Sam
Jean-Philippe Chatrier	...	Jean-Philippe, fils de Sam
Gila von Weitershausen	...	Une rencontre de Sam
Michel Beaune	...	Notaire de Sam
Pierre Vernier	...	Curé de Sam
Philippe Lorin	...	Toubib de Sam
Annie Philippe	...	Secrétaire de Sam
Céline Caussimon	...	Soeur de Al
Daniel Gélin	...	Pierrot Duvivier, père de Al
Alexis Gruss	...	Monsieur Loyal
Nicolas Mallet	...	Sam à 3 ans

Also Known As:

Der Löwe (West Germany)

Runtime:

125 min | West Germany:120 min

Country:

France | West Germany

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

Certification:

Iceland:L | France:U | Sweden:7 | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Les Films 13

Trivia:

After the last flop, Belmondo returns with this movie which was the sixth highest grossing movie of its year in France and won him the César, the French equivalent of the Oscar.

Movie Connections:

Featured in Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995)

Of all the movies in all the world, Americans had to skip this one?...

One of the greatest stories of love and friendship and loneliness I have ever seen. Ever. The feel-good, cry a little, learn a lot movie. Outstanding photography, great dialogue, and so much heart. Someone said that Lelouch is forever making the same movie over and over again. Good! I don't care if I don't see another one.

And what do you know -- a movie like this, a story of a super-successful, super-lovable, super-lonely man who decides to leave it all behind and lives vicariously through a poor young protege he crosses his paths with -- this story did not make it to the American screen and video?! I can hardly believe this. Someone give me the name of a person who decided to pass on this movie. Someone tell me how it is possible to release "Les Miserables" by Claude Lelouch starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and skip on an equally powerful, if not more so, "Itineraire..." which was made by the same two masters 7 years earlier?

Anyone who has seen "Les Miserables", call your Senator and demand that this movie be released in the United States of A.

Any foreign movie distributor who is reading this, grab this movie and you will have hit a mother lode.