---
title: 'Trois places pour le 26 (1988)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Jacques Demy'
released: '1988-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 106
genres:
  - 'Music'
countries:
  - 'France'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/trois-places-pour-le-26-1988'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096309/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Trois places pour le 26 (1988)

1988 · 106 min · Music · France


## Synopsis

Three Seats for the 26th is a 1988 French romantic musical film, written and directed by Jacques Demy to music by Michel Legrand. Set in Marseille, it shows the singer and actor Yves Montand returning to the city where he grew up and looking up old friends, including his first love Mylène, who had been a prostitute and is now the wife of a jailed baron. The purpose of his visit is to rehearse a stage musical based on his life, where he falls in love with the female lead named Marion, the daughter Mylène had after they parted. It was Demy's last picture.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Jacques Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-demy)
- **Screenplay:** [Jacques Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-demy)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Michel Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-legrand)
- **Producer:** [Claude Berri](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-berri)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jean Penzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-penzer)
- **Editor:** [Sabine Mamou](https://cinepixo.com/people/sabine-mamou)

## Cast

- [Hélène Surgère](https://cinepixo.com/people/helene-surgere)
- [Françoise Fabian](https://cinepixo.com/people/francoise-fabian)
- [Paul Guers](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-guers)
- [Jean-Louis Rolland](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-louis-rolland)
- [Christiane Minazzoli](https://cinepixo.com/people/christiane-minazzoli)
- [Jean-Claude Bouillaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-claude-bouillaud)
- [Mathieu Demy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mathieu-demy)
- [Pierre Maguelon](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-maguelon)
- [Jacques Nolot](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-nolot)
- [Raoul Curet](https://cinepixo.com/people/raoul-curet)
- [Yves Montand](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-montand)
- [Catriona MacColl](https://cinepixo.com/people/catriona-maccoll)
- [Christophe Bourseiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/christophe-bourseiller)
- [Mathilda May](https://cinepixo.com/people/mathilda-may)
- [Antoine Bourseiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoine-bourseiller)

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