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{{Infobox film
| name           = Le Sucre
| image          = Le Sucre.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| writer         = Jacques Rouffio<br>[[Georges Conchon]]
| starring       = [[Jean Carmet]]<br>[[Gérard Depardieu]]
| director       = [[Jacques Rouffio]]
| music          = [[Philippe Sarde]]
| cinematography = René Mathelin
| editing        = Geneviève Winding
| producer       = Lise Fayolle<br>Giorgio Silvagni
| studio         = [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]
| distributor    = [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]
| released       = {{film date|1978|11|15|df=yes}}
| runtime        = 104 minutes
| language       = French
| budget         =
| gross          = $5.7 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7826|title=Le Sucre (1978) - JPBox-Office}}</ref>
}}
'''''Le Sucre''''' (or ''The Sugar'') is a 1978 French [[crime comedy]] film directed by [[Jacques Rouffio]]. The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974.<ref>Gabrysiak, D. (2012). Transgression and Money on Screen: 1970s and 1980s French Films on High Finance. Irish Journal of French Studies, 12(1), 65-82.</ref><ref>Delalande, N., & Spire, A. (2010). IV. Vers un rapport apaisé à l'impôt (1974-2007)?. Repères, 79-104.</ref>
==Plot==
Raoul (Gerard Depardieu) is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien (Jean Carmet), a quiet and unassuming man, into taking his wife's inheritance and using it to speculate on the recent rise in sugar prices. Raoul is able to pry more money away from Adrien when he shows him how much his first, more conservative speculations have made. But the con-man is taken in by his own con, for Raoul has also entered the sugar market, using every bit of money he can scrape together. When the market turns around, they are both in trouble.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://en.unifrance.org/movie/200/le-sucre|title = Le Sucre (1978)}}</ref>
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==Cast==
* [[Jean Carmet]] : Adrien Courtois
* [[Gérard Depardieu]] : Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
* [[Michel Piccoli]] : Grezillo
* [[Nelly Borgeaud]] : Hilda Courtois
* [[Georges Descrières]] : Vandelmont
* [[Roger Hanin]] : Karbaoui
* [[Marthe Villalonga]] : Madame Karbaoui
* [[Claude Piéplu]] : President Berot
* [[Pierre Vernier (actor)|Pierre Vernier]] : Latoussaint
* [[Maurice Chevit]] : Lomont
* [[Jean-Claude Dreyfus]] : Mimine
* Jean-Paul Muel : Pergamont
* Tony Taffin : Flanqué
* [[Jean Champion]]
==Accolades==
{| class="wikitable" style="width:60%;"
|-
! Year !! Award !! Category !! Recipient !! Result
|-
| rowspan=5|1979
| rowspan=5|[[4th César Awards|César Awards]]
| rowspan=2|[[César Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Jean Carmet]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Gérard Depardieu]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[César Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Jean Carmet]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[César Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| [[Nelly Borgeaud]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[César Award for Best Writing|Best Writing]]
| [[Georges Conchon]] & [[Jacques Rouffio]]
| {{nom}}
|-
|}
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|id=0078338|title=Le Sucre}}
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[[Category:1978 films]]
[[Category:French crime comedy films]]
[[Category:French thriller films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Jacques Rouffio]]
[[Category:Films scored by Philippe Sarde]]
[[Category:Gaumont Film Company films]]
[[Category:1970s French films]]
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