''The Five-Legged Sheep'' (french: Le Mouton à cinq pattes) is a 1954 French comedy film directed by

Henri Verneuil Henri Verneuil (; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Fi ...

. It won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. It's considered a classic of French post-war cinema.

Plot

An old farmer whose five sons are quintuplets has hated them for over 20 years. After a visit from the villagers, they become convinced that the brothers should be reunited, and a search for the five brothers starts.

Cast

* Fernandel as Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré, Etienne *

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as Marianne Durand-Perrin * Andrex as Un marin *

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as Le docteur Bollène *

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as M. Durand-Perrin, le père * Paulette Dubost as Solange * Louis de Funès as Pilate * René Génin as Le maire *

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as Mme Durand-Perrin, la mère *

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as L'instituteur *

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as Un chinois *

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as Un matelot américain *

Noël Roquevert Noël Roquevert (born Noël Louis Raymond Bénévent; 18 December 1892 – 6 November 1973) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1932 and 1972. Roquevert was born in Doué-la-Fontaine and was married ...

as Antoine Brissard *

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as Azitad *

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as Un marin *

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as Le brigadier *

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as Le docteur * René Havard as Le liftier * Yette Lucas as Mariette *

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as Le patron du bistrot * Gil Delamare as Le chauffard *

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as Le métis * Nina Myral as La bonne *

Yannick Malloire Yannick is a first name that originated in Brittany, France, where the combination of its two Breton language parts, '' Yann'' and ''-ick'', results in the meaning of ''Little John'' or ''Petit Jean'' in French. It is used as a first name mostly ...

as Une petite fille *

Raphaël Patorni Raphaël Patorni (1911–1986) was a French film actor.Hayward p.439 Selected filmography * ''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1943) * ''The Island of Love'' (1944) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * ''Barry'' (1949) * '' Doctor Laennec'' (1949) * ''The Martyr of B ...

as Rodrigue *

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as Le nouveau patron des pompes funèbres * Jocelyne Bressy *

Micheline Gary Christiane Micheline Guary (1 October 1925 – 25 December 2022), better known as Micheline Gary, was a French film and stage actress who was active in the French film industry throughout the 1950s. In 1960 she married the actor Paul Meurisse. G ...

as L'hôtesse de l'instutut de beauté

References

External links

* * 1954 films French black-and-white films French comedy films Films directed by Henri Verneuil Golden Leopard winners Quintuplets 1954 comedy films 1950s French films {{1950s-France-film-stub