A Monkey in Winter
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Henri Verneuil
Jean Gabin
Jean-paul Belmondo
Suzanne Flon
Noël Roquevert
Paul Frankeur
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Albert Quentin, a crusty, reformed alcoholic, runs an inn in a small Normandy town. One day a young stranger, Gabriel Fouquet, wanders into his tavern, and the old man senses at once that they are kindred spirits. Fouquet, after years of aimless drifting, has come to fetch the schoolgirl daughter he has never seen. Fearful he will be a disappointment to the child, he meets the crisis by building up his courage with alcohol. A sympathetic Quentin, despite his vow never to touch another drop, joins Fouquet in a drinking bout. In the course of their escapade, Quentin recaptures the spirit of his adventurous past in China as a French marine while his companion's imagination takes him to Spain where he fancies himself to be both a flamenco dancer and a toreador. With the coming of the sobering dawn, both men are forced to face reality and Fouquet goes to fetch his daughter. While Quentin is seeing them off, he recalls a Chinese legend according to which the bitter, cold winter would bring hundreds of small monkeys from the wilderness to the towns. They would wander aimlessly about until the kindly townspeople placed them on trains and sent them back to their familiar forests. When the child asks her father if Quentin really helped the lost monkeys, Fouquet replies, "Well, I know for a fact of one monkey he put on a train."
Director
Henri Verneuil
Cast
Jean Gabin
Jean-paul Belmondo
Suzanne Flon
Noël Roquevert
Paul Frankeur
Gabrielle Dorziat
Marcelle Arnold
Hella Petri
Lucien Raimbourg
Geneviève Fontanel
Sylvianne Margolle
Charles Bouillaud
Camille Guérini
André Dalibert
Anne-marie Coffinet
Hélène Dieudonné
Crew
Michel Audiard
Jacques Bar
Françoise Bonnot
Monique Bonnot
François Boyer
Robert Clavel
Juan De Dios Filiberto
André Dumaître
Constantin Gavras
Michel Magne
Louis Page
Poste-parisien
Jean Rieul
Léon Sanz
Georges Valon
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Copyright length: 101 min. Released in France in 1962 as Un singe en hiver.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1962
Released in United States May 15, 1962
Shown at the Cannes International Film Festival May 15, 1962
Totalscope
Released in United States 1962
Released in United States May 15, 1962 (Shown at the Cannes International Film Festival May 15, 1962)
