Your Money or Your Life (1966 film)

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Your Money or Your Life
Your Money or Your Life (1966 film).jpg
Directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky
Written byJean-Pierre Mocky
Fernand Marzelle
Alain Moury
Marcel Aymé
Produced by Claude Ganz
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Starring Fernandel
Heinz Rühmann
Jean Poiret
Cinematography Jean Tournier
Edited by Janette Kronegger
Gabriel Rongier
Music by Bernard Kesslair
Production
companies
Orsay Films
Balzac Films
Vides Cinematografica
Société d'Expansion du Spectacle
Bavaria Film
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
27 April 1966
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
West Germany
Language French

Your Money or Your Life (French: La bourse et la vie) is a 1966 comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky and starring Fernandel, Heinz Rühmann and Jean Poiret. [1] It was made as a co-production between France, Italy and West Germany. It is a loose remake of the 1931 German film The Virtuous Sinner in which Rühmann had also appeared.

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It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and the Bavaria Studios in Munich. Location shooting also took place across France including Toulouse.

Partial cast

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  1. Monaco p.382

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