The Little Bather
- IMDb link: 0062120
- IMDb rating: 6.6 (5,018 votes)
- Genres: Comedy
- Director: Louis de Funes, Robert Dhery
- Cast: Franco Fabrizi, Andréa Parisy, Michele Alexandre and others
- Release date: 22 Mar 1968
- Release year: 1968
- Runtime: 96 minutes
- Country: France, Italy
- Keywords: 1960s, laughing at one's joke, village priest, sailing boat, tearing up a contract, bad temper, hot temper, vineyard, boss employee relationship, mean boss
Plot:
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funes, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer Andre Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...