A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the firm intent to quickly come back.
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| Kad Merad | ... | Philippe Abrams | |
| Dany Boon | ... | Antoine Bailleul | |
| Zoé Félix | ... | Julie Abrams | |
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Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret | ... | Raphaël Abrams |
| Anne Marivin | ... | Annabelle Deconninck | |
| Philippe Duquesne | ... | Fabrice Canoli | |
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Guy Lecluyse | ... | Yann Vandernoout |
| Line Renaud | ... | La maman d'Antoine | |
| Michel Galabru | ... | Le grand oncle de Julie | |
| Stéphane Freiss | ... | Jean Sabrier | |
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Patrick Bosso | ... | Le gendarme A7 |
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Jérôme Commandeur | ... | L'inspecteur Lebic |
| Alexandre Carrière | ... | Tony - l'amoureux d'Isabelle | |
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Fred Personne | ... | M. Vasseur |
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Franck Andrieux | ... | M. Leborgne |
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell... Written by Guy Bellinger
If this film meets such a great success, it's just because people recognize themselves in those characters. Well, they are not politically correct (alcoolism) but in these days when life is so difficult for the middle and low class French people, this movie is refreshing and helps you forget everything else. It's also a great lesson of tolerance. Nobody should never have pre-built ideas about a country or an area and his people. Dany Boon describes the world he knows. It's the same world that a lot of French people know, maybe not in Paris, but in the villages, in the country. For once, we have a movie with real people, real life stories of simple people. And maybe people wants to see this from time to time, instead of crimes and violence. Personnaly, I think this movie approaches the Marcel Pagnol movies. Two days ago, 12,592,762 seats where sold. 12,592,762 people cannot be wrong.