Le jardinier (1981)
1h 36m
Running Time
October 14, 1981Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Maurice Bénichou
The overseer

Michelle Marquais
Madame

Jean Bollo
The manager

Jean Bolo
The Manager

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

Jean-Pierre Sentier
Director

Jean-Pierre Sentier
Director

André de Blanzy
Producer

Pierre Alrand
Original Music Composer

Jean-Noël Ferragut
Director of Photography

Joëlle Barjolin
Editor

Simon Duhamel
Production Design

François Kirby
Production Design

Gilles Laboulandine
Production Design
