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The Troops of St. Tropez (French: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez; literally The Policeman from Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French comedy film set in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Starring Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot of the gendarmerie, the film is the first in the Gendarme series, and spawned five sequels.
- Et Dieu Créa La Femme (And God Created Woman) 1956. This film is what put Brigette Bardot on the map overnight. She wonderfully interprets the role of an 18-year-old orphan who makes the news in Saint-Tropez.
- La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) 1969. La Piscine is a dark film about a relationship that turns into a drama. The action takes place under the sun of the French Riviera.
- L’Annee des Meduses (The Year of the Jellyfish) 1984. L’Annee des Meduses was directed by Christopher Frank and starred Valérie Kaprisky and Bernard Giraudeau.
- Un Moment D’Egarement (A Moment of Madness) 1977. Pierre, 44, divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d’Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques own teen daughter, Françoise.
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (aka The Troops of St. Tropez) is the first film of The Gendarme Series, released in 1964. It was directed by Jean Girault and presents the first incarnation of Louis de Funès as the sergeant of gendarmerie Ludovic Cruchot.
The Troops of St. Tropez (French: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez; literally The Policeman from Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French comedy film set in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera. Starring Louis de Funès as Ludovic Cruchot of the gendarmerie, the film is the first in the Gendarme series, and spawned five sequels.
With six films, from 1964 to 1982, Cruchot became an incarnation – partly caricatured – of the gendarme and his inscription on society. The study of this corpus makes us wonder about the staging of a social body, the institutional reactions it creates and the ideological discourse it elaborates.
'Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez' is a definite must-see classic in French Cinema. Hardworking policemen Ludovic Cruchot (de Funès) has been reassigned from his small town village to the busy...
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The Troops of St. Tropez (French: Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez; literally The Policeman from Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French comedy film with Louis de Funès. The film mostly takes place in Saint-Tropez, a fashionable resort on the French Riviera.
