Le jardinier

Overview

This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portion of water to stragglers carrying pans as receptacles. Inside, the workers seem to be doing nothing that makes any sense, and they are watched over by a periscope set up by twins who run the factory. An unexplained, plain woman living on the premises is sought after by the whimsical foreman (Maurice Benichou) -- also known as the "gardener" because he has planted flowers in the coal wagons that remain on a maze of train tracks -- the only "stock" owned by the company.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Sentier

Top cast

Maurice Bénichou

The overseer

Michelle Marquais

Madame

J

Jean Bollo

The manager

P

Pierre Bolo

The manager's brother

Claude Faraldo

The winning workman

Daniel Laloux

The father of the child

Geneviève Mnich

The mother of the child

Georges Trillat

The entertainer

Alain Frérot

The eternal victim

Armand Babel

The patriarch

François Dyrek

The thief of water

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