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Music director
  
Michel Legrand

Language
  
French

5.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Duration
  

Country
  
France

The Oldest Profession movie poster

Director
  
Claude Autant-Lara Mauro Bolognini Philippe de Broca Jean-Luc Godard Franco Indovina Michael Pfleghar

Writer
  
Jean Aurenche
,
Daniel Boulanger
,
Ennio Flaiano
,
Klaus Munro
,
Andre Tabet
,
Georges Tabet

Release date
  
21 April 1967 (1967-04-21)

Initial release
  
April 7, 1967 (West Germany)

Directors
  
Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Autant-Lara, Philippe de Broca, Mauro Bolognini, Franco Indovina, Michael Pfleghar

Screenplay
  
Jean-Luc Godard, Daniel Boulanger, Georges Tabet, Jean Aurenche, Andre Tabet, Ennio Flaiano, Klaus Munro

Cast
  
Michèle Mercier
(Brit),
Jeanne Moreau
(Mimi),
Raquel Welch
(Nini),
Elsa Martinelli
(Domitilla),
Jean-Claude Brialy
(Philibert),
Anna Karina
(Natasha / Eleanor Romeovich, Hostess 703)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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The Oldest Profession (French: Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde) is a 1967 internationally co-produced comedy film. It features contributions from six different film directors, each one doing a segment on prostitution through the ages.

Contents

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Plot

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  • The Prehistoric Era - cavewoman Brit discovers the power of make up.
  • Roman Nights - in Ancient Rome, the Emperor visits a brothel and discovers his wife there.
  • Mademoiselle Mimi - during the French Revolution, a young man, Philibert, asks to visit prostitute Mimi while his uncle is being executed next door. He says he has no money but will inherit an estate so Mimi sleeps with him, not knowing it is all a con.
  • The Gay Nineties - in the 1890s, stripper Nini persuades an elderly banker to marry her.
  • Paris Today - in the present day, prostitute Catherine works from a car driven by her friend, Nadia. When the car is impounded, they use an ambulance instead.
  • Anticipation - in the future, a man from outer space visits Earth where prostitution has been automated and divided into its physical and sentimental aspects. He is equally unmoved by "Miss Conversation," who recites romances, and "Miss Physical," a silent bedmate, until he realizes that the mouth is one part of the body that can play a part in both aspects.

    • Production

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    Raquel Welch was the only American in the cast.

    Release

    The Oldest Profession The Oldest Profession 1966 uniFrance Films

    The rights to distribute the film in the US and English-speaking Canada were purchased by Jack Harris. Harris later wrote in his memoirs he was attracted by the chance to work on "a brand new film, produced like a major Hollywood picture, featuring Raquel Welch and some of the hottest female stars in the world... It was a big disappointment as a theatrical entry. However through the years, between theatres, television and home video, it has never lost is popularity and has treated me very well."

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    The Los Angeles Times thought the film was "ruined by some of the worst dubbing in recent memory".


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    References

    The Oldest Profession Wikipedia
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