Les surdoués de la première compagnie

Les surdoués de la première compagnie

1981 · 90 min · ★ 3.8 · Comedy

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.

Directed by Michel Gérard · Written by Michel Gérard

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Bernard Lavalette Colonel Varalin
Philippe Brizard Chief warrant officer Colin
Ariane Carletti Céline
Hubert Deschamps Medical officer
Darry Cowl Colonel Boussardon
Philippe Klébert Benoît Leroy
Florent Pagny Baltar, nurse soldier
Isabelle de Botton Mrs. Colin, warrant officer's wife
Ticky Holgado Warrant officer's neighbor (uncredited)
Michel Bonnet Warrant officer
Xavier Deluc Fred
Michel Melki Cook

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