La Smala is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert.
Overview
La Smala is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean-Loup Hubert.
Plot
Simone, a former rocker, is a dedicated homemaker who works in a city of the suburbs of Lyon. She deals especially with Robert, a former virtuoso accordion languishing in unemployment, and his five children. One day, Robert's wife left him to go to live in Paris with a Cop. Desperate, Robert decided to go to the capital to persuade her to come back. Meanwhile, Simone takes a few days of well-deserved vacation, went to Paris to visit her brother. She then finds herself in the same train compartment as Robert, and she discovered stunned on arrival at Lyon that his five children followed him. She must manage all this smala and can happily rely on the hospitality of her brother Pierrot (a transsexual, named now Rita), to take care of all these people. But Simone, who is secretly in love with Robert, will help him in his research and even get the opportunity to record an album with one of his old friends in the music business...
Cast
Josiane Balasko as Simone
Victor Lanoux as Robert
Dominique Lavanant as Pierrot / Rita
Maurice Risch as Gégène
Charles Gérard as Yvon
Cerise Leclerc as Lulubelle
Fabrice Samson as Jojo
Cándida Romero as Lucie
Hassine Aouichi as Billy
Mahmoud Zemmouri as Omar Ben Youssef
Xavier Fultot as Jean-Marie
Monique Estelle as Jaja
Hakim Ghanem as Babar
Thierry Lhermitte as The Sick Cop
Martin Lamotte as The Monk
Gilberte Géniat as The Concierge
Luis Rego as The Internal
Smaïn as The Fighter
Perrette Souplex as The Old Lady on the Train
Rémy Bricka as himself