Le Sucre

Le Sucre
	Film poster
Directed by	Jacques Rouffio
Produced by	Lise Fayolle; Giorgio Silvagni
Written by	Jacques Rouffio; Georges Conchon
Starring	Jean Carmet; Gérard Depardieu
Music by	Philippe Sarde
Cinematography	René Mathelin
Edited by	Geneviève Winding
Production; company	Gaumont
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release date	15 November 1978;
Running time	104 minutes
Language	French
Box office	$5.7 million[1]

Le Sucre (or The Sugar) is a 1978 French crime comedy film directed by Jacques Rouffio.

Plot

The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974.[2][3] Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming man, into taking his wife's inheritance and using it to speculate on the recent rise in sugar prices. Raoul is able to pry more money away from Adrien when he shows him how much his first, more conservative speculations have made. But the con-man is taken in by his own con, for Raoul has also entered the sugar market, using every bit of money he can scrape together. When the market turns around, they both land in the soup together.[4]

Cast

Jean Carmet : Adrien Courtois
Gérard Depardieu : Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Michel Piccoli : Grezillo
Nelly Borgeaud : Hilda Courtois
Georges Descrières : Vandelmont
Roger Hanin : Karbaoui
Marthe Villalonga : Madame Karbaoui
Claude Piéplu : President Berot
Pierre Vernier : Latoussaint
Maurice Chevit : Lomont
Jean-Claude Dreyfus : Mimine
Jean-Paul Muel : Pergamont
Tony Taffin : Flanqué
Jean Champion

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
1979	César Awards	Best Actor	Jean Carmet	Nominated
		Best Actor	Gérard Depardieu	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Jean Carmet	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actress	Nelly Borgeaud	Nominated
		Best Writing	Georges Conchon & Jacques Rouffio	Nominated

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References

http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7826
Gabrysiak, D. (2012). Transgression and Money on Screen: 1970s and 1980s French Films on High Finance. Irish Journal of French Studies, 12(1), 65-82.
Delalande, N., & Spire, A. (2010). IV. Vers un rapport apaisé à l'impôt (1974-2007)?. Repères, 79-104.
https://en.unifrance.org/movie/200/le-sucre

External links

Le Sucre on IMDb

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[1] ttp://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7826

[2] Gabrysiak, D. (2012). Transgression and Money on Screen: 1970s and 1980s French Films on High Finance. Irish Journal of French Studies, 12(1), 65-82.

[3] Delalande, N., & Spire, A. (2010). IV. Vers un rapport apaisé à l'impôt (1974-2007)?. Repères, 79-104.

[4] ttps://en.unifrance.org/movie/200/le-sucre