Mystère à Saint-Tropez is a French-Belgian comedy film directed by Nicolas Benamou and released in 2021.
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Plot
Saint-Tropez, August 1970. The principal Paris police inspector Jean Boulin from the 36 quai des Orfèvres, real ambulant cataclysm, is sent at the property of the famous Belgian billionaire Claude Tranchant to enquire on a murder attempt that is targeting his wife. In the sumpteous villa where is reunited for the holiday the flagship of the show-business, the inspector makes a series of blunders, looking for the culprit.
Cast
Christian Clavier as principal inspector Jean Boulin
Benoît Poelvoorde as Baron Claude Tranchant
Thierry Lhermitte as Yves Lamarque
Jérôme Commandeur as Cyril, the cooking chef
Rossy de Palma as Carmen
Virginie Hocq as Baroness Éliane Tranchant
Vincent Desagnat as Andreas Kalamannis
Nicolas Briançon as Jacques Aziza
Gérard Depardieu as general police director Maurice Lefranc
Elisa Bachir Bey as Laura
Chloé Lambert as Francine Aziza
Gauthier Battoue as Ben
Camille Claris as Peggy
Gil Alma as Gabriel
Philypa Phoenix as Angela
Olivier Claverie as Pierre, the doctor
Jean Dell as Castelli, the car mechanic
Philippe Dusseau as Jacques Chirac
Yves Lecoq as Jacques Chirac (voice), Alain Delon (voice)
Production
Genesis and development
The project began in late 2018, when film director Jean-Marie Poiré had evoked it in the press: "I'm writing a new film and I'd like it to be made", he stated at BFM TV. "It's a comedy with Christian Clavier. It will be a thriller film. I think it will be funny. Talking with Christian, I told him that he had never played a police role. We'll finally be able to discover, I hope so, Christian Clavier as a cop !".
The film was first titled Do you do you Saint-Tropez, in tribute to the film Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964), despite the fact that the song title of the generic is Douliou-douliou Saint-Tropez.
Filming
Filming took place in the Belgian county of the Walloon Brabant (in the suburb of Brussels) and in the Saint-Tropez gulf (Saint-Tropez, Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Ramatuelle, Gassin)
Two German Spitz dogs, Plume and Lily, participate at the filming, under the direction of the Belgian dog trainer Gaëtan Doppagne, who participated at more than 200 films.
Information around the film
The vignettes that appear on the windshield of the vehicles are totally fanciful and anachronistic, with the first vignette appearing in 1973, which denotes a singular indigence in directing the film.