L'Animal | |
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Directed by | Claude Zidi |
Written by | Michel Audiard Dominique Fabre Claude Zidi |
Produced by | Bernard Artigues Christian Fechner René Malor |
Starring | Jean-Paul Belmondo Raquel Welch |
Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
Edited by | Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
Distributed by | Cerito Films Analysis Film Releasing Corporation |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | 25 million francs[1] |
Box office | $7.1 million[2] |
L'Animal is a 1977 French action comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch. It was distributed in the United States by Analysis Film Releasing Corp under the title Stuntwoman.
The film initially focuses on two professional stunt performers, who are engaged to each other. They get injured in a car stunt on their wedding day, and then break-up their relationship and their professional partnership. After a period of unemployment, the man of the couple is offered a high-salary job. He soon wants to convince his former fiancée to rejoin their partnership. He finds out that she is currently engaged to a nobleman, and desperately tries to regain her affection before her impending wedding day.