I Don't Know Much

Plot

Pierre Gastié-Leroy (Pierre Richard) is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing (Bernard Blier). Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate in him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys," at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory. They will have fun making mischief and being overzealous to convince the supervisors on increasing the working rhythms, denouncing the trade union leaders, battling a strike and finally, stealing 500 tanks to sell them to the black market. A demonstration of new remote-controlled missiles attended by the Minister for Defence turns into a fiasco. Injured in his pride, the father Gastié-Leroy wants to show the reliability of his product by pointing the fire at his own factory.

Cast

Pierre Richard as Pierre Gastié-Leroy

Bernard Blier as Monsieur Gastié-Leroy

Didier Kaminka as Didier

Luis Rego as Luis

Georges Beller as Georges

Pierre Tornade as the police commissioner

Daniel Prévost as Morel

Danièle Minazzoli as Danou, the nurse

Nicole Jamet as Nicole

Hélène Duc as Madame Gastié-Leroy

Francis Lax as Antoine

Pierre Repp as Vernier, the factory director

Jean Obé as Oncle Léon, godfather of Philippe

André Thorent as Oncle Jean

Michel Delahaye as Oncle Paul

Xavier Depraz as Général Deglane

Jean Saudray as Morin

François Cadet as Félix

Victor Lanoux as a laborer

Teddy Vrignault as Staflikevitch, the Bulgarian

André Gaillard as the Social Security employee

France Rumilly as Laurence Deglane

Les Charlots (Gérard Rinaldi, Jean Sarrus, Gérard Filippelli, Jean-Guy Fechner) as Soldiers