''As Long as You've Got Your Health'' () is a 1966 French comedy film directed by and starring

Pierre Étaix Pierre Étaix (; 23 November 1928 – 14 October 2016) was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an A ...

. It consists of four separate stories: a man reads about

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s all night, people leave their workplaces and try to find a seat in a cinema, people suffer from stress and consult a psychiatrist who is the most stressed of them all, and a group of people visit a small forest for different reasons.

Cast

as Pierre * Denise Péronne * Sabine Sun * Claude Massot * Véra Valmont * Émile Coryn * Roger Trapp * Alain Janey

Release

The film was released in France on 25 February 1966. It competed at the 1966

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where it won the Silver Seashell. In 2013 it was released on home media by

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together with four other Étaix films.

References

1966 comedy films 1966 films Films directed by Pierre Étaix French anthology films French comedy films 1960s French-language films 1960s French films {{1960s-France-film-stub