Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Jean-Pierre Marielle
as Paul Dufour
Jean Rochefort
as Albert
Brigitte Fossey
as Suzanne Dufour
Bernard Blier
as Father Émile
Claude Piéplu
as A guerrilla
Gérard Jugnot
as A follower
Sylvie Joly
as The head doctor
Dominique Lavanant
as The myopic woman
Claudine Beccarie
as The gynecologist's patient
Pierre Bertin
as The canon
Dora Doll
as Simone, captain of the soldiers
Micheline Kahn
as Geneviève
