Les Visiteurs
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| Directed by | Jean-Marie Poiré |
| Produced by | Alain Terzian |
| Written by |
Jean-Marie Poiré Christian Clavier |
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Eric Lévi (Era) Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy |
| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Le Mener |
| Edited by | Catherine Kelber |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
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107 Minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $9.5 million |
| Box office | $98.8 million |
Les Visiteurs (French pronunciation: [le vizitœʁ]; English: The Visitors) is a French fantasy comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré and released in 1993. In this comedy, a 12th-century knight and his servant travel in time to the end of the 20th century and find themselves adrift in modern society.
Les Visiteurs was the Number 1 box office film in France in 1993, with 13,782,846 ticket sales and it remains the fifth highest grossing French film ever. The publicity for the film used the tagline Ils ne sont pas nés d'hier ("They weren't born yesterday"). Reno and Clavier reprised their roles in a sequel in 1998, the American remake Just Visiting in 2001 and a second sequel in 2016. The castle of Ermenonville, in Oise département, served as decoration for the castle of Montmirail in the current time and the Cité de Carcassonne for medieval period.
In the year 1123, Godefroy Amaury de Malfête, Count of Apremont and Papincourt, saves the life of his beloved sovereign, King Louis VI "Le Gros" ("The Fat") from the sword of a "horribilis" Englishman.
For this action of bravery, the King makes him Count of Montmirail and promises him the woman he loves, the beautiful Frénégonde de Pouille. On his way to the castle to marry Frénégonde, Godefroy's drinking flask is drugged by the witch he had earlier taken prisoner. Hallucinating, he believes the Duke of Pouille, father of his future wife, is a ferocious bear, and kills him with a crossbow bolt. During the Duke's funeral, Frénégonde refuses to marry Godefroy because of the tragedy, but Godefroy's servant, the disreputable Jacquouille la Fripouille, steals the Duke's jewels when the funeral ends.
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