''The Grand Moments'' ( French: ''Les Grands Moments'') is a French film directed by

Claude Lelouch Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...

in 1965.

Details

* Title : ''The Grand Moments'' * Director:

* Photography : Jean Collomb * Producers: Films 13, Films de la Pléiade * Scenery : Robert Luchaire * Format : 2,35:1 ( Franscope) - Mono - 35 mm * Release date : 1965

Starring

Amidou Hamidou Benmessaoud ( ar, حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television, and stage actor. Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he m ...

: ''Roger Amy'' *

Pierre Barouh Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film ''A Man and a Woman'' as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music ...

: ''Karl Martin'' *

Jean-Pierre Kalfon Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 30 October 1938) is a French actor and singer. Selected filmography External links * 1938 births Living people French male film actors French male television actors Male actors from Paris French male stage a ...

: ''Jean Mafitte'' * Janine Magnan : ''Janine'' * Jacques Portet : ''Jacques Framm''

About the film

*After four attempts to destroy the negatives,

eventually succeeded in 1964, within fifteen days of the success of ''

Une fille et des fusils ''Une fille et des fusils'' is a 1965 French film directed by Claude Lelouch. It is also known in the English-speaking world as ''The Decadent Influence'' or ''To Be a Crook''. Plot Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can ...

''. ''Les Grands Moments'' was a parody of the

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

style of the period, but the film never found a distributor, and Lelouch thought the film was so bad that he attempted to destroy the negatives of the film, so that it would never be shown. Lelouch then drove all night, stopping only in

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, where he saw a couple on a beach, who gave him the idea for a film, that went on to become '' A Man and a Woman''. * Janine Magnan was the partner of Lelouch at the time.

External links

* French comedy films 1965 films Films directed by Claude Lelouch 1960s French films {{1960s-France-film-stub