The Birdcage (La Cage aux Folles) (1978)

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Directed by

Edouard Molinaro

Starring (View all)

Ugo Tognazzi
Renato Baldi

Michel Serrault
Albin Mougeotte dit Zaza Napoli

Claire Maurier
Simone Deblon

Carmen Scarpitta
Louise Charrier

Benny Luke
Jacob

Luisa Maneri
Andréa Charrier

Michel Galabru
Simon Charrier

Venantino Venantini
Le chauffeur de Charrier

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Jean Poiret

Francis Veber
(screenplay)

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Edouard Molinaro directs this French farce with great élan. Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) runs a transvestite nightclub and has been living with the revue's star (Michel Serrault) for twenty years. When a son from his defunct marriage turns up and announces that he is going to get married, the gay couple are put into a tizzy. They try to pull off a meeting with the bride's parents (he is a Puritanical government official who heads a commission on moral order) by pretending that they are both straight and respectable. The encounter turns into a crazy and very funny comedy of errors.

Release date: 20 October 1978
UPC: 027616864475