L'emmerdeur

L'emmerdeur
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Édouard Molinaro
Written by	Francis Veber (play and screenplay)
Produced by	Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine
Starring	Jacques Brel Lino Ventura Caroline Cellier
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon
Music by	Jacques Brel François Rauber
Production companies	Les Films Ariane Mondex Films Oceania Produzioni Rizzoli Film
Distributed by	CCFC
Release date	20 September 1973 (1973-09-20) (France)
Running time	85 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French
Box office	$25.2 million[1]

L'emmerdeur (literally The Troublemaker, with the English title of A Pain in the Ass, often promoted as A Pain in the A__^[2][3]) is a 1973 French-Italian black comedy film, starring Jacques Brel, appearing in his tenth and final feature film. Directed by Édouard Molinaro and co-starring Lino Ventura, Caroline Cellier, and Jean-Pierre Darras, L'emmerdeur is an adaptation of Francis Veber's 1971 play Le contrat.

In the film, a contract killer waits for his intended victim at a hotel room, but his plan is accidentally thwarted by the suicidal salesman occupying the neighboring room. He resorts to prevent the salesman from committing suicide, in fear that the suicide would cause a police search in the hotel.