LES AVENTURES DE

RABBI JACOB

Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob is a film Franco-Italian realized by Gerard Oury, release in 1973.

♦ Synopsis :

The industrialist Victor Green woodpecker, catholic and French "like everyone", irascible and a racist bit, prepares to marry his Antoinette daughter with the son of a general.

But one Friday evening, whereas it returns to Paris with its Solomon driver, of which it discovers with stupor that it is Jew, it is victim of an exit of road. Remained only after it dismissed its employee who refused to work during Shabbat, Victor Pivert will seek himself of the assistance, and ends from there in a factory of chewing-gum.

It suddenly attends to with it a payment of accounts between the members of a police force of State of a country identified like "Arabic" and a political dissident, Mohammed Larbi Slimane, that the latter want to eliminate. Slimane then managing to escape involves, in spite of him in its mare, Victor Pivert become his "hostage" and who finds himself in addition as well required by the French police force as by the secret police of the Arab country carried out by the Farès disaster.

Green woodpecker and Slimane thus seek to leave the capital to escape their attackers. The two men find themselves thus with the airport of Orly, where they usurp the identity of two rabbis hassidic just unloaded New York. They are then involved, in spite of them, in a Jewish ceremony with the centre street of Rosiers in Paris, during which Victor, become "Rabbi Jacob", falls nose to nose with Solomon…

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♦ Quotations :

- Pivert : Demande de lui de te réengager il te dira vouuui
- Salomon : De me doubler?
- Pivert : Il te dira vouuuui
- Salomon : De me tripler?
- Pivert : Il te dira non!

« (stupéfait) Vous êtes juif ?! Comment, vous Salomon, vous êtes juif ?! Salomon est juif ! Oh !
— Et mon oncle Jacob qui arrive de New York, il est rabbin  !
— Mais il est pas juif ?!
— Ben si !
— (avec de l'espoir) Mais pas toute vot'famille ?!
— Si !
— (magnanime, après un silence) Écoutez ça fait rien, je vous garde quand même ! »

« Monsieur n'a pas le droit de manger de la viande le vendredi. Moi, je n'ai pas le droit d'allumer l'électricité le samedi. Ce n'est pas plus bête.
- Si ! C'est plus bête. »

« Salomon, Slimane, Slimane, Salomon... Vous ne seriez pas un peu cousins ?
- Salomon : Cousin...?
- Slimane : Eloignés...
Et après quelques instants de ce moment de paix,
— Victor Pivert impatient : Oui, bon, pas maintenant, plus tard, plus tard ! »

« C'est de moi ou de mon collègue que vous vous foutez ?!?
— Victor Pivert souriant : Ah des deux ! Je me fous des deux ! »

 

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