
100 minutes
4/30/1948
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neighbor Casimir. But the Carcass, too, feels attracted to the young woman...

Michel Simon
as Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka 'Le tord-cou'

Michèle Martin
as Thérésa

Lucien Coëdel
as Louis, aka 'La Carcasse'

Madeleine Suffel
as Lucie
Georges Baconnet
as Villager

Jean Brochard
as Me Souquet

Lolita De Silva
as Farm girl
Emile Chopitel
as Mayor of the village
Charlotte Ecard
as Gossip

Maurice Marceau
as Peasant

Léon Larive
as Commander Ludovic Midol
Ellen Briand

Paul Mercey
as Peasant
Loyse Launoy
Edmond Bazin
Thuet
Georgette Gobin

Louis Seigner
as Casimir Gros

Eugène Stuber
as Worker (uncredited)