Gerard Oury’s 95th Birthday (born 1919)

mercredi 30 avril 2014
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Date : April 29, 2014

If you’re not a French film buff, it may look like we have some explaining to do... and you’d be right ! While the uniforms seem to indicate these are members of a dark and sinister army, they are in fact the famous comedic duo, Louis de Funes and Bourvil, cast as ordinary Frenchmen disguised in German uniforms in Gerard Oury’s best-known work, La Grande Vadrouille. For extra context, I recommend watching this four-minute trailer.

Before arriving at the final image, other options to celebrate Gerard Oury were explored, including a broader overview of his films :

Our colleagues and Oury experts in the Google France office felt it was best to focus on the best known work in a way that could convey Oury’s sense of humor through a single moment – so La Grande Vadrouille it was. In the chase scene below, the two main characters are trying to help downed English pilots escape arrest by the German army. They ride in a horse cart pulled by a nun, who seems unaffected by the gravity of the situation.

It wasn’t considered a very well-known moment from the film, however, and was scrapped in favor of the moment famously depicted on movie posters for the original release of the film.