The Visitors: Bastille Day

The Visitors: Bastille Day (original title: Les Visiteurs: La Révolution) is a 2016 French-Belgian-Czech comedy film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré.

It is the third opus of the trilogy Les Visiteurs, following The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time released eighteen years earlier in 1998 and twenty-three years after the first one in 1993.

The film was produced by Sidonie Dumas (Gaumont), Sylvain Goldberg and Serge de Poucques (Nexus Factory), Christian Clavier (Ouille Productions) and Jean-Marie Poiré, who also co-wrote the scenario with Christian Clavier, like the two previous films.

Only three actors of the two previous films play in this third opus, Christian Clavier, Jean Reno and Marie-Anne Chazel, but only Reno and Clavier portray again their same characters of Godefroy de Montmirail and Jacquouille la Fripouille. They are accompained by new protagonists played by Franck Dubosc, Karin Viard, Sylvie Testud, Ary Abittan, Alex Lutz and Pascal Nzonzi.

Filmed from April to June 2015 in Czech Republic and then in Belgium, the film is with the remake Just Visiting (2001) the second film of the series having not been filmed in France. It was also the return of Jean-Marie Poiré on film directing after a long break of almost 14 years.

Plot

Arrived in 1793 in the middle of the French Revolution, Godefroy de Montmirail and his servant Jacquouille la Fripouille meet Jacquouillet, the descendant of Jacquouille and public accuser, and find themselves caught in the Reign of Terror. Godefroy is convicted to his descendance of that period, who tries to escape the Revolution. He and his servant help him to escape and attempt to find again a descendant of the Enchanteur to go back to their period.

Cast

• Christian Clavier as Jacquouille la Fripouille / Jacquouillet / Edmond Jacquart
• Jean Reno as Godefroy Amaury de Malfête, comte de Montmirail, d'Apremont et de Papincourt
• Franck Dubosc as Gonzague de Montmirail / François Montmirail
• Marie-Anne Chazel as Prune
• Karin Viard as Adélaïde de Montmirail
• Sylvie Testud as Charlotte de Robespierre / Geneviève Carraud-Robespierre
• Stéphanie Crayencour as Victoire-Églantine de Montmirail
• Ary Abittan as Lorenzo Baldini, marquis de Portofino
• Alex Lutz as Robert de Montmirail
• Pascal Nzonzi as Philibert
• Frédérique Bel as Flore
• Nicolas Vaude as Maximilien de Robespierre
• Christian Hecq as Jean-Paul Marat
• Christelle Cornil as Simone Marat
• Lorànt Deutsch as Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois
• Mathieu Spinosi as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
• François Bureloup as Georges Couthon
• Nicolas Lumbreras as Jacques-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne
• Cyril Lecomte as Joseph Fouché
• Alexandre von Sivers as Eusèbe
• Dimitri Storoge as Commissaire Verdier
• Serge Papagalli as the coachman
• Véronique Boulanger as Élise
• Éric De Staercke as Dutch duke
• Patrick Descamps as Louis VI "le Gros", King of France
• David Salles as Ralph I of Vermandois
• Annie Grégorio as Honorine
• Götz Otto as Colonel Wurtz
• Urbain Cancelier as the chief jailer at the prison of Issoudun
• Jean-Luc Couchard as the accuser Legendre
• Guillaume Briat as Robinot
• Joëlle Sevilla as Mrs. Robinot
• Julie-Marie Parmentier as Norah
• Chantal Pirotte as Catherine Théot
• Elliot Goldberg as Thibaud de Montmirail
• Horatia Taittinger as Marie-Thérèse de Montmirail

External links

• The Visitors: Bastille Day at IMDb