Romain Bouteille

Acting

Romain Bouteille

Born — Died

1937-03-24 — 2021-05-31

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

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 Solist…

Known for

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Nulle part ailleurs poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Nulle part ailleurs

1987

À bout portant poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

À bout portant

1968

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1980s · 6 titles

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

T'es grand et puis t'oublies

1981

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

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

Les matous sont romantiques poster
8.0

Three couples—each made up of a man named Roger and a woman named Jeanne—are close friends who plan a convivial dinner gathering. In a humorous twist, the wives unexpectedly fail to appear, leaving the three Rogers to navigate the evening on their own. As they share a meal, the absence of their partners sparks a series of reflective and witty conversations where memories, philosophies on love, life, and death, and existential musings take center stage, transforming an ordinary night into an intimate exploration of friendship and the human condition.

Les matous sont romantiques

1981

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux! poster
6.2

In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors, stage-hands, director, writers, producers, and others are gathered for the filming of a 45-second automobile commercial. Each role embodies an archetype (the harried director who has a deadline to meet, the Scrooge production manager who has a budget to meet, and the writers who are above these mundane concerns), and these personalities drive the working actors over the edge until they decide to lock them up and do their own thing -- happiness can be just around the corner if you are in the driver's seat. Hopefully, the actors will be able to bow out before the police catch on to the situation.

Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!

1982

1970s · 17 titles

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

Themroc poster
6.4

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

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

The Granddaughter's Model poster
3.7

Four young women embark on a journey of sexual awakening.

The Granddaughter's Model

1971

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 Year 01 poster
6.5

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

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

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

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

Ursule and Grelu poster
6.3

A Salvation Army lieutenant and an accordion player fall in love, only to be repeatedly separated by circumstance. Reuniting in Marseille, they build a life and have a child, but fate continues to intervene as their relationship unfolds through cycles of separation and reunion.

Ursule and Grelu

1974

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

Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les autres poster
5.4

A bunch of actors (mixed theater gangs from Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid) are reunited in a movie theater to watch an anonymous porn flick. Their reactions to the images. All dialogs have been improvised.

Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les autres

1978

Le Graphique de Boscop poster
6.5

In Saint-Rupert, Basse Lozère, the son of a family of garbage collectors, Pissenlit, who has played the mentally deficient since childhood so as not to be forced to go to school, is in fact a prodigy in mathematics: by reading a book found in a trash can, he revolutionizes a mathematical theory. Meanwhile, his father is making a computer from objects recovered from garbage cans, and capable of composing musical "hits" that may make him a star.

Le Graphique de Boscop

1976

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

La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur poster
7.0

A hit man fails his contracts because of a young runner.

La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur

1972

Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis poster
5.5

After the death of one of his clients, a Swiss industrialist decides to call his brother to transport the corpse to Switzerland. The journey will not be easy.

Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis

1975

L'école sauvage poster
9.0

In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herself. In the smaller classes, group activities were dispensed with: each child did what interested him or her, according to temperament and desire. In other classes, grades are unknown and there is no fixed program; in English, the teacher lets the pupils work and converse according to their own style and rhythm; in a natural science class, we see a 10-year-old child expounding a theme on her own and answering questions from her classmates. Artistic activities also feature prominently: theatrical improvisation and orchestra formation, among others. The creation of a council allows children to submit initiatives, discuss them and organize themselves around their suggestions.

L'école sauvage

1973

1960s · 6 titles

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

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

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

Le 13ème Caprice poster
10.0

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

Le 13ème Caprice

1967

Johnny Banco poster
6.0

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

Johnny Banco

1967

We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore poster
8.0

In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four German deserters. led by Saint-Brice is based in the Woevre forest. Lise, a nineteen-year-old girl, is their liaison officer. One evening, four German soldiers turn up as deserters. After a period of doubt, the maquisards agree to integrate them into their group. Lise falls in love with one of the newcomers, Werner, and becomes his mistress. One day, she leaves on a mission with Lucien, and comes across an enemy patrol. The SS shoot Lucien and free Lise. In the camp, people begin to think that the maquis has been betrayed.

We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore

1969

Series credits

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

Le Grand Échiquier poster
8.0

Le Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.

Le Grand Échiquier

1972

Nulle part ailleurs poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Nulle part ailleurs

1987

À bout portant poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

À bout portant

1968

Behind the camera