Petrus

• Director: Marc Allégret
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• Genre: Comedy
• Main Cast: Fernandel, Pierre Brasseur, Simone Simon, Corinne Calvet
• Release Year: 1946
• Country: FR
• Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

Petrus is a tailor-made vehicle for lantern-jawed French farceur Fernandel. The star plays a naïve photographer who falls in love with nightclub dancer Simone Simon. Though she travels in a more sophisticated crowd, Fernandel never gives up his dream that someday the girl will be his. And sure enough, thanks to a series of plot convolutions that would be ridiculous anywhere else but on the Silver Screen, Simon is finally won over by the stumbling shutterbug. Petrus was co-adapted by director Marc Allegret from the play by Marcel Achard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Fernandel
• Pierre Brasseur
• Simone Simon
• Corinne Calvet

Credit

Marc Allégret - Director, Marcel Achard - Play Author