1979
6.4 (9 votes)
1h 34m
Genres
Comedy
Production Companies
Maran Film
France 3
Maygar Productions
France 3
Maygar Productions
The Associate (L'Associé)
Overview
An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Key Crew
Director: René Gainville
Producer: René Gainville
Screenplay: René Gainville, Jean-Claude Carrière
Director of Photography: Étienne Szabo
