H (French TV series)
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H is a French
sitcom with seventy-one, 22-minute episodes. The series was created by Abd-el-Kader Aoun, Xavier Matthew and Éric Judor, and produced by Phillippe Berthe, Édouard Molinaro
, Jean-Luc Moreau and Charles Némès. It ran from 24 October 1998 to 20 April 2002 on Canal+
. In Canada
, it is shown weekly on TV5.http://www.tv5.ca/television/H.html
The title "H" comes from the three words that characterize the series: Humour, Histoire et Hôpital (Humour
, Story
and Hospital
).
s.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
sitcom with seventy-one, 22-minute episodes. The series was created by Abd-el-Kader Aoun, Xavier Matthew and Éric Judor, and produced by Phillippe Berthe, Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro
Édouard Molinaro is a French film director, actor, and screenwriter. He was born in Gironde, Bordeaux.He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès , My Uncle Benjamin , Dracula and Son , and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles Édouard Molinaro (born 13 May 1928) is a French...
, Jean-Luc Moreau and Charles Némès. It ran from 24 October 1998 to 20 April 2002 on Canal+
Canal+
Canal+ is a French premium pay television channel launched in 1984. It is 80% owned by the Canal+ Group, which in turn is owned by Vivendi SA. The channel broadcasts several kinds of programming, mostly encrypted...
. In Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, it is shown weekly on TV5.http://www.tv5.ca/television/H.html
The title "H" comes from the three words that characterize the series: Humour, Histoire et Hôpital (Humour
Humour
Humour or humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement...
, Story
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...
and Hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
).
Premise
In each episode, a medical team faces unrealistic situations in a hospital in the Parisian suburbs.Cast
- Jamel DebbouzeJamel DebbouzeJamel Debbouze is an actor, comedian and producer of Moroccan descent.-Biography:Debbouze is the oldest of five brothers. He was born in Paris, France, but his family moved to Morocco the following year...
as Jamel Driddi - Éric Judor as Aymé Cesaire
- Ramzy BediaRamzy BediaRamzy Bedia is a French actor of Algerian descent.After attending a business school, and working at a GAP Store. He started his career as a comedian in 1994 after meeting Eric Judor with whom he forms the duet Eric et Ramzy...
as Sabri Saïd - Catherine Benguigui as Béatrice "Béa" Goldberg (seasons 1 and 2)
- Sophie Mounicot as Clara Saulnier
- Jean-Luc BideauJean-Luc BideauJean-Luc Bideau is a Swiss film actor. He has appeared in over 125 films since 1965.-Selected filmography:* Les Bons Vivants * Mr...
as Professor Maximilien « Max » Strauss - Linda HardyLinda HardyLinda Hardy is a French actress and model.-Biography:Hardy won the title of Miss France in 1992 and represented her country at Miss Universe and Miss World.-Movie career:...
as Charlotte, Professor Strauss' daughter (season 3) - Edgar Givry as the Director of the hospital
Guest appearances
In four seasons, many notable French actors appeared in guest starring roles or cameoCameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
s.
- Marie-Christine AdamMarie-Christine Adam-Filmography:*Deux jours à tuer *Hors de prix *Le Divorce *Argai: The Prophecy *Les Trois Frères *L'amour braque -External links:...
- Bernard BlancanBernard BlancanBernard Blancan is a French actor. He has appeared in over 85 films and television shows since 1989. He shared the award for Best Actor for his role in Days of Glory at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
as a food critic - Richard BohringerRichard BohringerRichard Bohringer is a French actor.-Personal life:Bohringer was born in Moulins, Allier. He is the father of actress Romane Bohringer, and has two other children, Richard and Lou.-Career:...
as St. Peter - Isabelle Bouysse as a prostitute
- Alain Bouzigues as a friend of Aymé
- Gerard Chaillou as an elevator repairman
- Gerard DarmonGérard DarmonGérard Darmon is a French movie actor and singer.Second husband to Mathilda May.He has three children: Virginie and the last two by Mathilda May, daughter Sarah and son Jules...
as the police chief - Vincent Desagnat
- Mouss DioufMouss DioufMouss Diouf Mouss Diouf Mouss Diouf (born on 24 October 1964 in Dakar is a French-Senegalese actor, comedian, moderator and humorist.-Acting career:He is best known for his lead role in The Beast (La bête) and as Baba in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra.-Filmography:...
as a thief - Lorànt DeutschLorànt DeutschLaszlo Matekovics, aka « Lorànt Deutsch » , is a French actor and writer.Born at Alençon, his father was Hungarian and his mother was French....
- Jean-Claude DreyfusJean-Claude DreyfusJean-Claude Dreyfus is a French actor. He began his career in film acting in 1973 in the film Comment réussir quand on est con et pleurnichard. Dreyfus is notable for his portrayal of a butcher in the black comedy Delicatessen by Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet...
- Maureen Dor as one of Aymé's exes
- Richard Gotainer (cameo)
- Thierry HenryThierry HenryThierry Daniel Henry is a French professional footballer who plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.Henry was born in Les Ulis, Essonne where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and...
(cameo) - Philippe KhorsandPhilippe KhorsandPhilippe Khorsand was a French actor. His father was Iranian and his mother was French. He first appeared in a number of small roles in the 1970s. One of his most memorable roles as husband and father in Tableau d'honneur .Khorsand died of a hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris.-External links:* *...
- Stéphanie Lagarde as a girl who fall in love with Aymé
- Augustin Legrand as a skinheadSkinheadA skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian rude boys and British mods,...
- Pierre PalmadePierre PalmadePierre Palmade is a French actor and comedian.-Biography:He has done dubbing for the films, Pédale douce and Pédale dure...
(cameo) - Patrick Poivre d' Arvor (cameo)
- Micheline PresleMicheline PresleMicheline Presle is a French actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle.Born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the...
(cameo) - Christine OckrentChristine OckrentChristine Ockrent is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.Daughter of Belgian diplomat Charles Ockrent, she was born in Brussels, Belgium. She graduated from Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris in 1965. She worked for American television and...
(cameo) - Serge Riaboukine
- Jeanne Savary as a nurse
- Bruno Solo as a depressive patient
- Joey StarrJoey StarrJoeystarr is a French rapper of Martinican origin, from Saint-Denis. He co-founded the famous French rap group Suprême NTM in 1989 along with Kool Shen....
as the devil
Characters
- Djamel Driddi - Switchboard operator in Orthopedics. He is ready to do anything to earn money and willing to place himself in difficult situations: cross-dressing, selling rats, trafficking expired pizzas in the hospital, disguising himself as Père Noel, etc. He is pathological liar and often uses the expression “dis-moi pas que c’est pas vrai” (Don't tell me that it's not true!)
- Aymé Césaire - a male nurse. He is the son of an Austrian woman (who ends up having an affair with Sabri) and a man from GuadeloupeGuadeloupeGuadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...
. He is a cowardly hypochondriac, often cynical and arrogant. He is obsessed with women and suffers from hyper-sexuality. He claims to be fluent in ebonicsEbonicsEbonics is a term that was originally intended to refer to the language of all people descended from enslaved Africans, particularly in West Africa, the Caribbean, and North America...
but is instead fluent in German. He is named for the MartiniquaisMartiniqueMartinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
poet, Aimé CésaireAimé CésaireAimé Fernand David Césaire was a French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature".-Student, educator, and poet:...
.
- Sabri Saïd - a stretcher-bearer and later a barman at the bar "Barbylone" near the hospital. Although a comic character, he can be a "bad guy" : he poisons Aymé, Clara, and Professor Strauss, and locks Jamel out on his balcony.
- Clara Saulnier - the chief nurse in Orthopedics. An older woman, she is domineering and persistent. Before becoming a nurse, she was an alcoholic prostitute and porn star. She shares a love-hate relationship with Aymé.
- Beatrice “Béa” Goldberg - a doctor. She is a nice but unattractive young woman. She can also be considered the most "normal" of the characters. Unlucky in love, she finally falls for Jean-François Guyen, a French-Vietnamese lawyer, but their wedding is broken up on the day of the marriage.
- Professor Maximilien "Max" Strauss - Head surgeon. He is obsessed with sports, collectibles, money, and various sexual fetishes. Because of his incompetence, he is the defendant in several malpractice suits. He is unable to manage his group (who spend most of the day goofing off) and cannot remember their names correctly. He has a daughter named Charlotte, and the show hints that he may be the son of Hitler.
- Edgar - the hospital administrator. Intelligent and ambitious, his plans are always thwarted by Professor Strauss, Aymé, or Sabri.
First season (1998-1999)
- L'Anniversaire (The Birthday)
- Trop Moche pour être belle (Too ugly to be beautiful)
- Un manuscrit (A manuscript)
- Un meilleur copain (A better buddy)
- Une grossesse (A pregnancy)
- No Clowning (No Clowning)
- Une thérapie de couple (Couple's Therapy)
- Une belle maman (A beautiful mom)
- Une promesse (A promise)
- Une vie de chien (A Dog's Life)
- Un mensonge (A lie)
- Un flacon rouge (A red bottle)
- Une histoire de comédienne (An Actress' Tale)
- Une histoire de professeurs (A Professor's Tale)
- Une histoire de héros (A Hero's Tale)
- Un coup de froid (A cold chill)
- Une histoire de famille (A Family's Tale)
- Une histoire de mari (A Husband's Tale)
- Une histoire de lapin (A Rabbit's Tale)
- Une différence (A difference)
Second season (1999-2000)
- Une histoire d'intelligence (A Tale of Intelligence)
- Une histoire de croyance (A Tale of Belief)
- Une histoire de démission (A Tale of Resignation)
- Une histoire de discorde (A Tale of Discord)
- Une histoire d'amours (A Tale of love)
- Une histoire de cassette (A Tale of a cassette)
- Une histoire d'humanitaire (A Tale of humanitarian)
- Une histoire de vacances (A Tale of holidays)
- Une histoire d'amnésie (A Tale of amnesia)
- Une histoire de frère (A Brother's Tale)
- Une histoire de mec formidable (A Tale of a Cool Guy)
- Une histoire de champignons (A Mushroom's Tale)
- Une histoire de cousine (1/2) (A Cousin's Tale)
- Une histoire de cousine (2/2) (A Cousin's Tale)
- Une histoire de chasse (A Tale of the hunt)
- Une histoire de père (A Father's Tale)
- Une histoire de théâtre (A Tale of the Theatre)
- Une histoire de poste (A Tale of a Job)
- Une histoire de show-bizz (A Showbiz Tale)
- Une histoire de cobaye (A Tale of a Guinea PigGuinea pigThe guinea pig , also called the cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not in the pig family, nor are they from Guinea...
)
Third season (2000-2001)
- Une histoire de garderie (A Nursery Tale)
- Une histoire de paternité (A Tale of paternity)
- Une histoire de génération (A Generation's Tale)
- Une histoire de ski (A Ski Tale)
- Une histoire de corde (A Tale of a cord)
- Une histoire d'assurance-vie (A Taleof life insurance)
- Une histoire de fauteuil (A Tale of an armchair)
- Une histoire de cadeau (A Tale of a gift)
- Une histoire d'enlèvement (A Tale of removal)
- Une histoire de service militaire (A Tale of military service)
- Une histoire de VRP (A Tale of the VRP)
- Une histoire d'appartement (A Tale of an apartment)
- Une histoire de boîte de nuit (A Tale of a nightclub)
- Une histoire d'uniforme (A Tale of a uniform)
- Une histoire de film (A Tale of a film)
- Une histoire de collection (A Tale of collection)
- Une histoire de voiture (A Car's Tale)
- Une histoire de livre (A Book's Tale)
- Une histoire de président (A President's Tale)
- Une histoire de parrain (A Godfather's Tale)
Fourth season (2002)
- Une histoire de dentiste (A Dentist's Tale)
- Une histoire de preuve (A Tale of Proof)
- Une histoire de compétence (A Tale of Competence)
- Une histoire de curé (A Priest's Tale)
- Une histoire de Blanche-Neige (Snow White's Tale)
- Une histoire de chiot (A Puppy's Tale)
- Une histoire de détective (A Detective's Tale)
- Une histoire de fraude (A Tale of fraud)
- Une histoire de permis (A Tale of license)
- Une histoire de obsession (A Tale of obsession)
- Une histoire de purgatoire (A Tale of purgatory)