Mon pote le gitan , is a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 film from 1959, directed by François Gir, written by Alain Blancel, starring Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

. In Italy the film is known under the title: "Il dottor zivago".
Mon pote le gitan , is a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 film from 1959, directed by François Gir, written by Alain Blancel, starring Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

. In Italy the film is known under the title: "Il dottor zivago".
Mon pote le gitan , is a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 film from 1959, directed by François Gir, written by Alain Blancel, starring Louis de Funès

Louis de Funès

Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...

. In Italy the film is known under the title: "Il dottor zivago". the scenario was written on the basis of "Les Pittuiti's" of Michel Duran.

Cast

• Jean Richard
  Jean Richard
  Jean Richards was a French actor.born: Bessines, Deux-Sèvres, Franciadied: Paris, Francia-Filmography:*1947 : Six heures à perdre, directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte...
  
   : M Pittuiti, the Gypsy
• Louis de Funès
  Louis de Funès
  Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was a very popular French actor who is one of the giants of French comedy alongside André Bourvil and Fernandel...
  
   : M. Védrines, editor
• Grégory Chmara : Le "Pépé"
• Michel Subor
  Michel Subor
  Michel Subor is a French actor who gained fame playing the lover of Brigitte Bardot's character in La Bride sur le Cou .In Hollywood Subor starred in Clive Donner's What's New, Pussycat? and in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz...
  
   : Bruno Pittuiti, the son of the Gypsy
• Guy Bertil : Théo Védrines, the son of the editor
• Lila Kedrova
  Lila Kedrova
  Lila Kedrova was a Russian-born French actress.-Biography:Kedrova claimed to have been born in 1918, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Her parents were Russian opera singers. Lila Kedrova's brother was Nikolay Kedrov, Jr...
  
   : La "Choute"
• Brigitte Auber
  Brigitte Auber
  Brigitte Auber is a French actress who has worked extensively on film and TV in Europe, but is little-known in the United States....
  
   : Odette, la bonne
• Simone Paris : Mrs Védrines
• Anne Doat : Gisèle Védrines, daughter
• Joseph Reinhardt : the musician
• Thérésa Dmitri : Zita Pittuiti, daughter
• Jacqueline Caurat
  Jacqueline Caurat
  Jacqueline Caurat is a retired French television presenter and journalist.After a film career during the 1940s and 1950s, Caurat became an in-vision continuity announcer for the ORTF's first channel....
  
   : the reporter
• Luce Fabiole
• Jacques Verrières
• Odile "Maguy" Poisson
• Robert Destain
• François Bonnefois
• Eliane Martel
• Monique Dagand

External links

• Mon pote le gitan (1959) at the Films de France