Jean-Pierre Bacri: which great actor dubbed him?


The French actor Jean-Pierre Bacri had started at the very end of the 70s and among his first films, “The Seventh Target” by Claude Pinoteau. And his playing partner, a famous actor at the time, gave him the best possible compliment.

Lino Ventura, a great actor in French cinema, hailed the talent of Jean-Pierre Bacri very early on when he was only in his thirties and had little screen experience. They had just shot The Seventh Target by Claude Pinoteau together.

Guest February 11, 1985 in the show Cinema Special of the RTS, Lino Ventura saluted the talent of the young actor who played there his first significant role since Le Grand pardon, released three years earlier.

Bacri. I find it sensational. He brought a note of humor to this film, he aired it out, I find this guy terrific.

In the film, Bacri (33) plays Inspector Daniel Esperanza, a separated father with two little girls who is not very good at investigations and makes mistakes after mistakes. Here he is in charge of controlling the life of Bastien Grimaldi (Ventura), recently attacked at night in the street.

At first, this attack seems gratuitous, but repeated phone calls and anonymous letters accumulate. While he feels spied on from all sides, Grimaldi decides to conduct his own investigation to find out who is threatening him.

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Bacri and Ventura

This dubbing of Bacri by his eldest, who had toured with Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Piccoli, Bruno Cremer, Simone Signoret or Michel Serrault, was then worth all the compliments in the world. In the two years following The Seventh Target, Bacri will shoot ten films in two years, including Chère canaille (top of the bill), L’Eté en pente douce or Escalier C.

When it was released in December 1984, The Seventh Target totaled 1.249 million admissions. This will be the last film starring Lino Ventura. We will see him again, however, in the TV movie The Sword of Gideon by Michael Anderson (1986) and for an appearance in La Rumba by Roger Hanin, released in 1987, the year of the actor’s death.



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