The Wing or the Thigh?

L'Aile ou la Cuisse (1976)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Release date

1976-10-27

Country

France

Production

Les Films Christian Fechner, TOBIS Film

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$23 000 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Claude Zidi

Actors

Louis de Funès, Coluche, Ann Zacharias, Julien Guiomar, Raymond Bussières, Philippe Bouvard, Daniel Langlet, Claude Gensac, Georges Chamarat, Jean Martin
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Scenario

Producer

Christian Fechner, Pierre Grunstein, Bernard Artigues

Operator

Claude Renoir

Composer

Vladimir Cosma

Artist

Audition

Editing

Monique Isnardon, Robert Isnardon
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• In 1975, after a heart attack, Louis de Funès stopped acting. With the film 'L'aile ou la cuisse' (Wing or the Leg), he returned to the film industry.
• Scenes at the food production factory were filmed at the "Aire de Nemours" facility, located south of Paris.
• The Tricatel bureau is located in La Défense – a modern business district in the western part of Paris.
• The "Dushmen" restaurant guide is a nod to "Michelin" – the famous restaurant rating.
• The film's authors were inspired by French industrialist Jacques Borel – the "Napoleon of fast food" – when creating the character of Tricatel, played by Julien Guiomar. Borel was, in the 1970s in France, an embodiment of unhealthy food. Like Jacques Borel, Jacques Tricatel is depicted as a pragmatic and somewhat coarse man.
• Pierre Richard was considered for the role of Gérard Dushmen, but ultimately Kolush replaced him at short notice, as Richard was already committed to another film ("Nowhere to Run").
• In the display case of Russian books, featuring a guidebook by Dushmen, are books that have nothing to do with cooking – books on Russian phonetics and grammar, an animal registry, and among them is noticeable the cover of Emelyan Yaroslavsky’s “Bible for Believers and Non-Believers.”
• In 1975, after a heart attack, Louis de Funès stopped making films. With "L'aile ou la cuisse" (Wing or the Thigh), he returned to the film industry.
• The creation of the character Tricatel, played by Julien Guiomar, was inspired by the French industrialist Jacques Borel – the "Napoleon of fast-food snacks", who in the 1970s in France embodied unhealthy food. Following the example of Jacques Borel, Jacques Tricatel is depicted as a pragmatic and somewhat coarse man.
• Pierre Richard was considered for the role of Gérard Duschemin, but ultimately Coluche replaced him at short notice, as Richard was already committed to another film ("The Wing or the Thigh").