Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents

1993 French film

1 December 1993 (1993-12-01)

Running time

90 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrenchBudget$3.4 millionBox office$3 million^[1]

Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents or Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes is a 1993 French comedy film directed by Jean-Jacques Zilbermann and starring Josiane Balasko. She received her second nomination to the César Award for Best Actress for this role.

Plot

This is set in 1958 during an open referendum for the adoption of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic. It is about the daily life of Irene, a communist activist who was rescued from concentration camps by the Red Army when she was young, and who is married to Bernard, a small Gaullist shopkeeper. Their political differences undermine the couple. In a historical moment, the Alexandrov Ensemble come to give a performance in France, allowing Irene to meet veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad in the sight of her jealous husband. She will do anything to convince him to vote no in the referendum.

Cast

Josiane Balasko as Irène
Maurice Bénichou as Bernard
Catherine Hiegel as Régine
Jean-François Dérec as Uncle Charlot
Viktor Neznanov as Ivan
Aleksandr Piskaryov as Boris
Aleksey Maslov as Sacha
Jérémy Davis as Little Leon
Christine Dejoux as Jeannette
Jacques Herlin as Choumerski
André Oumansky as Cousin Isaac

Release

The film opened on 33 screens in Paris and grossed $262,278 in its opening week to finish in fourth place at the Paris box office.^[2]

References

^ "Tout le monde n\'a pas eu la chance d\'avoir eu des parents communistes (1993) - JPBox-Office".
^ "France welcomes the Buddha". Screen International. 10 December 1993. p. 27.