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La Grande bouffe

Screenshot of Philippe and Ugo
Directed byMarco Ferreri
Produced byVincent Malle
Jean-Pierre Rassam
Written byRafael Azcona
Marco Ferreri
StarringMarcello Mastroianni
Ugo Tognazzi
Michel Piccoli
Philippe Noiret
Music byPhilippe Sarde
Release date(s)1973
Running time135 minutes
CountryFrance / Italy
LanguageFrench
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La Grande Bouffe (Italian: La grande abbuffata, English: The Grand Bouffe and Blow-Out) is a 1973 French–Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret. Through the story four friends gather in a villa for the weekend for the express purpose of eating themselves to death. Bouffer is French slang for "eating" (the Italian abbuffata means "great eating").

Marco Ferreri won the FIPRESCI Prize given by the International Federation of Film Critics at Cannes Film Festival in 1973.

Cast

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Marco Ferreri (May 11, 1928 – May 9, 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said:
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Jean-Pierre Rassam (1942-1985) was a noted French film producer of the 1970s.

Family

He married Carole Bouquet and the two had a son, Dimitri Rassam. He had a brother named Paul Rassam and a sister named Anne-Marie Rassam. Claude Berri was his brother-in-law.
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Rafael Azcona, (Logroño , October 24, 1926) is an awarded Spanish screenwriter who has worked with the best Spanish film makers; even internationally, for exaple his famous long collaborations with Italian Marco Ferreri.

He has won five Goya Awards.
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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni in 1958
Birth name Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni
Born September 26 1924(1924--)
Fontana Liri, Italy
Died
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Ugo Tognazzi (March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film, TV and theatre actor, director and screenwriter.

Biography

Tognazzi was born in Cremona but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Philippe Noiret

Born October 1, 1930
Lille, Nord, France
Died November 23, 2006
Paris, France

Spouse(s) Monique Chaumette (1962-2006)

Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1990
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Philippe Sarde, born June 21, 1945, is a French composer.

Biography

Philippe Sarde was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France. He is the brother of Alain Sarde. He was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1988.
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
Anthem
"La Marseillaise"


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Anthem
Il Canto degli Italiani
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French (français, pronounced [fʁɑ̃ˈsɛ]) is a Romance language originally spoken in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, and today by about 300 million people around the world as either
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Official language of:  European Union
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Writing system: Latin (English variant) 
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
ISO 639-2: eng
ISO 639-3: eng  
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French cinema.

France, especially, has long been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the World. For this reason French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations.
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Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had discovered the medium, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.
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Marco Ferreri (May 11, 1928 – May 9, 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said:
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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni in 1958
Birth name Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni
Born September 26 1924(1924--)
Fontana Liri, Italy
Died
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Ugo Tognazzi (March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film, TV and theatre actor, director and screenwriter.

Biography

Tognazzi was born in Cremona but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Philippe Noiret

Born October 1, 1930
Lille, Nord, France
Died November 23, 2006
Paris, France

Spouse(s) Monique Chaumette (1962-2006)

Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1990
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FIPRESCI (short for Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique), in English known as International Federation of Film Critics, comprised of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the
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The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in the month of May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the
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Marcello Mastroianni

Marcello Mastroianni in 1958
Birth name Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni
Born September 26 1924(1924--)
Fontana Liri, Italy
Died
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Philippe Noiret

Born October 1, 1930
Lille, Nord, France
Died November 23, 2006
Paris, France

Spouse(s) Monique Chaumette (1962-2006)

Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1990
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Michel Piccoli (born December 27, 1925) is a French actor. He was born in Paris to a musical family; his mother was a pianist and his father a violinist. He was married three times, first to Éléonore Hirt, then for eleven years to the singer Juliette Gréco and finally to Ludivine
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Ugo Tognazzi (March 23, 1922 - October 27, 1990) was an Italian film, TV and theatre actor, director and screenwriter.

Biography

Tognazzi was born in Cremona but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.
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Andréa Ferréol (born January 6, 1947) is a French actress.

Partial filmography

  • La Grande bouffe (Blow-Out) (1973)
  • Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (1979)
  • Le Dernier Métro (The Last Metro) (1980)

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French cinema.

France, especially, has long been a gathering spot for artists from across Europe and the World. For this reason French cinema is sometimes intertwined with the cinema of foreign nations.
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