--- title: 'Fric-Frac (1939)' type: 'film' director: 'Claude Autant-Lara' released: '1939-01-01' runtime_minutes: 105 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'France' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/fric-frac-1939' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031345/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Fric-Frac (1939) 1939 · 105 min · Comedy · France ## Synopsis Fric-Frac is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Maurice Lehmann and Claude Autant-Lara and starring Fernandel, Arletty and Michel Simon. It tells the story of Marcel, an assistant to a jeweller, who befriends a couple of criminals who want to use him as an accomplice to rob his boss. The film is based on a 1936 play by Édouard Bourdet. Filming took place in March and April 1939 at the Laboratoires et Studios Eclair in Épinay-sur-Seine. The film was released in France on 15 June 1939. ## Credits - **Director:** [Claude Autant-Lara](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-autant-lara), [Maurice Lehmann](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-lehmann) - **Screenplay:** [Édouard Bourdet](https://cinepixo.com/people/edouard-bourdet), [Michel Duran](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-duran) - **Director of Photography:** [Louis Née](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-nee) ## Cast - [Fernand Flament](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernand-flament) - [Eugène Stuber](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-stuber) - [Andrex](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrex) - [Georges Lannes](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-lannes) - [Fernandel](https://cinepixo.com/people/fernandel) - [Rivers Cadet](https://cinepixo.com/people/rivers-cadet) - [Maurice Lagrenée](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-lagrenee) - [Jacques Varennes](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-varennes) - [René Génin](https://cinepixo.com/people/rene-genin) - [Robert Mercier](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-mercier) - [Manuel Gary](https://cinepixo.com/people/manuel-gary) - [Hélène Robert](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-robert) - [Frédéric Mariotti](https://cinepixo.com/people/frederic-mariotti) - [Arletty](https://cinepixo.com/people/arletty) - [Marcel Vallée](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-vallee) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/fric-frac-1939 Film facts: Wikidata (Q2413039); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.