“The Great Ramble” celebrates 50 years in the village of Meursault – Europe1

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This is one of French films most cults of the 20th century. The Great Mop , made in 1966 by Gérard Oury with Bourvil and Louis De Funes, has long been the most seen French film with 19 million viewers. Fifty years later, Scent of a Woman, Meursault, Cote d’Or, remembers the filming that has deeply marked the village.

Some scenes of the film restored. Everything here celebrates the anniversary of the film, starting with the town hall, an ancient castle that Gérard Oury had turned into kommandantur. For good cause, the original sign was relocated Friday. All weekend, visitors can attend the reconstitution of cult scenes, “you will have the bed scene, when De Funes is found in bed with Germany and it is absolutely fabulous It’s a scene. anthology, with numbers that rotate, 9 and 6, “said Denis Thomas, president of the tourist office.

  
  
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 Funes was very reserved, very discreet.  Bourvil, he was grinning 
  
  A set of the time  
  
  
  
  Former extras participating in the  festival.  also present extras at the time.  Those who, for example, playing firemen, the  winemakers themselves, aged twenty years at the  time. As Peter Bouserot they fondly remember these  moments with the two actors are fifty years: "When  Bourvil and De Funès exited through the door  here, with Bourvil on the shoulders of De Funès,  it was folded in half laughing They were very  different. from Funes was very reserved, very  discreet Bourvil, he was grinning he told stories,  he made us laugh, "if he remembers... This same  Bourvil who did not hesitate at the time to stroll  cycling in the vineyards and drink with the  locals. But how else to Meursault, as the village  is renowned for its white wine.