Romain Bouteille

Acting

Romain Bouteille

Born 1937-03-24 · Paris, France

Romain Bouteille (24 March 1937 – 31 May 2021) was a French playwright, actor, comedian, and singer. Romain Bouteille is the author of nearly thirty plays of anarchist inspiration. In 1968, he met Coluche. Together, they founded the troupe Café de la Gare. The same year, he separated from his partner Sotha who married Patrick Dewaere. Both are members of the troupe. Bouteille was married to the actress Saïda Churchill, with whom he has lived for thirty years. After spending three years in Marseilles where their son Shams was born, in 1997, they settled in Beauce, in Étampes. In December 2014, together they created a fifty-seat theater, a sort of “Left Bank” cabaret called Les Grands Solistes. About fifty artists, including François Rollin, Albert Meslay, Clair Jaz, Didier Porte, Marc Gélas, Fred Saurel, Paul Adam, Vincent Roca, Christophe Guybet, but also, in another register, Jean Vocat, Frédéric Hulné, Prune Lichtlé, have already happened there. Source: Article "Romain Bouteille" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Cookies poster
6.3

Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.

Cookies

1975

The Tenant poster
7.6

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

The Tenant

1976

The Fire Within poster
7.6

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

The Fire Within

1963

The Granddaughter's Model poster
3.7

Four young women embark on a journey of sexual awakening.

The Granddaughter's Model

1971

Themroc poster
6.5

Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.

Themroc

1973

Elsa, Elsa poster
7.5

When he was eight years old, Ferdinand was chosen to play a supporting role along a famous actress. Today, a producer is asking him to write and direct a film about his childhood memories...

Elsa, Elsa

1985

Mia and the Migoo poster
6.9

One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.

Mia and the Migoo

2008

Raining Cats and Frogs poster
6.9

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

Raining Cats and Frogs

2003

Sans peur et sans reproche poster
5.5

Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.

Sans peur et sans reproche

1988

Au long de rivière Fango poster
6.5

Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or money. Bild believes he is the child abandoned by Mathilde, while Jeremiah is attracted to his daughter, Maurine. When Bild dies, Jeremiah learns that he is the son of Matilda and that consequently Maurine is his sister. He takes to flight ...

Au long de rivière Fango

1975

The Year 01 poster
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The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.

The Year 01

1973

Distracted poster
6.1

A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.

Distracted

1970

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques poster
5.9

Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.

Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

1971

The Scent of Mandarin poster
5.9

During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair.

The Scent of Mandarin

2015

Promise at Dawn poster
5.5

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.

Promise at Dawn

1970

Secret Paris poster
8.0

Features gourmets chowing down on bats, voodoo practitioners, a chap who has a fetish for being covered in bees and a gal who has the Eiffel Tower tattooed on her behind so she can sell the skin at a later date. These choice cuts are interspersed with the usual parade of prostitutes, transvestites and strippers.

Secret Paris

1965

Dieudonné - Pardon Judas ! poster
6.9

After his betrayal, Judas did not go hang himself, but instead embarked on a 2000-year wandering, carrying the weight of infamy (his betrayal of Jesus), before reappearing in the midst of the Algerian desert.

Dieudonné - Pardon Judas !

2000

Promotion canapé poster
5.1

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.

Promotion canapé

1990

Surprise Sock poster
5.5

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.

Surprise Sock

1978

Johnny Banco poster
6.0

A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.

Johnny Banco

1967

Le 13ème Caprice poster
10.0

A married man begins an affair with a girl he meets under strange circumstances.

Le 13ème Caprice

1967

Monsieur le Président Directeur Général poster
5.0

In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates.

Monsieur le Président Directeur Général

1966

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête poster
5.6

Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...

Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête

1989

A Cloud in the Teeth poster
5.8

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.

A Cloud in the Teeth

1974

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