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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
3.8 / 10• 1981• 1h 30m•NR• French
Comedy
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Bernard Lavalette
Colonel Varalin
Lead
Philippe Brizard
Chief warrant officer Colin
Ariane Carletti
Céline
Hubert Deschamps
Medical officer
Darry Cowl
Colonel Boussardon
PK
Philippe Klébert
Benoît Leroy
Florent Pagny
Baltar, nurse soldier
Isabelle de Botton
Mrs. Colin, warrant officer's wife
What People Are Saying
2.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Michel Gérard's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Les surdoués de la première compagnie is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
