La Classe américaine (1993)
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George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
- Date of release
- 1993-12-31
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (257)
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Genres
- Comedy, TV Movie
- Director
- Michel Hazanavicius, Dominique Mézerette
Casting
- Christine Delaroche — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Évelyne Grandjean — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Marc Cassot — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Patrick Guillemin — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Raymond Loyer — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Joël Martineau — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Jean-Claude Montalban — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Roger Rudel — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Jean-Éric Bielle — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Marc François — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Michel Hazanavicius — Dubbing Voice (voice)
- Lionel Abelanski — Dubbing Voice (voice)
Interesting facts
La Classe américaine, also known as Le Grand Détournement, is a 1993 French television film, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette. It consists exclusively of extracts of old Warner Bros. films, put together and dubbed with new lines so as to create an entirely new film that is a parody of Citizen Kane.
Production
Warner Bros. had given the French film and television studio Canal+ Group the rights to use extracts of Warner Bros. films. Hazanavicius and Mézerette set about producing an entire film from cut-and-paste existing footage, and hired the usual French dubbers of John Wayne (Raymond Loyer), Paul Newman (Marc Cassot) and Kirk Douglas (Roger Rudel) to perform the dubbing.
It is the third and last film of a triptych entitled Le Grand Détournement, composed of Derrick contre Superman (September 1992) and Ça détourne (December 1992).
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