Directed by:
Édouard MolinaroCinematography:
Armando NannuzziComposer:
Ennio MorriconeCast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Rémi Laurent, Michel Galabru, Venantino Venantini, Claire Maurier, Mimmo Poli, Margherita Horowitz, Carmen Scarpitta (more)VOD (2)
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Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault) - a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez - agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off a wild and warmhearted French farce about the importance of nonconformity and being true to oneself. A breakout art-house smash in America, Edouard Molinaro’s La Cage aux Folles inspired a major Broadway musical and the blockbuster remake The Birdcage. But with its hilarious performances and ahead-of-its-time social message, there’s nothing like the audacious, dazzling original movie. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Ugo Tognazzi
Italy
Best movies:
Viva Italia! (1977)
Una questione d'onore (1966)
All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Michel Serrault
France
Best movies:
Order of the Daisy (1967)
The Big Store (1973)
The Inquisitor (1981)
Rémi Laurent
France
Best movies:
Bankers Also Have Souls (1982)
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Crossings (1986) (series)
Michel Galabru
France
Best movies:
The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
War of the Buttons (1962)
Venantino Venantini
Italy
Best movies:
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
Cop or Hood (1979)
Claire Maurier
France
Best movies:
Amelie (2001)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Evidence in Concrete (1958)
Mimmo Poli
Italy
Best movies:
Roman Holiday (1953)
Cop in Blue Jeans, The (1976)
1900 (1976)
Margherita Horowitz
Poland
Best movies:
Man of the East (1972)
Viva Italia! (1977)
Conversation Piece (1974)
Carmen Scarpitta
USA
Best movies:
In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
Casanova (1976)
Savage Three (1975)
Renato De Montis
Best movies:
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Jacques Ferrière
France
Best movies:
Giovanni Vettorazzo
Italy
Best movies:
Heaven (2002)
The Consequences of Love (2004)
Il Divo (2008)
Peter Boom
Netherlands
Best movies:
Il Generale Della Rovere (1959)
Non ci resta che piangere (1984)
The Concorde Affair (1979)
Angelo Pellegrino
Italy
Best movies:
Cop in Blue Jeans, The (1976)
1900 (1976)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
Liana Del Balzo
Argentina
Best movies:
Ben-Hur (1959)
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Guido Cerniglia
Italy
Best movies:
The Octopus (1984) (series)
End of the Game (1975)
In Prison Awaiting Trial (1971)
Carlo Reali
Italy
Best movies:
Odds and Evens (1978)
The Octopus (1984) (series)
Wait for the Dawn (1960)
Luisa Maneri
Italy
Best movies:
La Cage aux folles (1978)
They Call Me Renegade (1987)
Casablanca Express (1989)
Edmondo Tieghi
Best movies:
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Die Kinderklinik (1993) (series)
The Warning (1980)
Cesare Nizzica
Best movies:
Ginger and Fred (1986)
La Cage aux folles (1978)
Buddy Goes West (1981)