Rigadin, Dégustateur en Vins

1913 Comedy Directed by Georges Monca

About Rigadin, Dégustateur en Vins

Charles Prince’s Rigadin takes up wine tasting. He works a tastevin, spits the samples at whoever is standing nearby, then forgets the rule and swallows. The second bout leaves him drunk and the room in pieces.

Cast & crew

More about Rigadin, Dégustateur en Vins

Georges Monca directed the comedy for Pathé Frères, which also distributed it. The Cinémathèque française lists a French release on 29 August 1913.

Themes

  • A tasting that turns into a binge
  • Spitting as the whole joke
  • Rigadin
  • wine tasting
  • tastevin
  • drunkenness
  • Pathé comedy

Music

Silent.

Preservation

A print circulates; the Cinémathèque française holds a catalog record of the 1913 Pathé release.

Notes

  • Henri Collen plays the servant and Gaston Dupray a passerby.
  • André Simon and Gabrielle Lange are also in the Pathé cast list kept by the Cinémathèque française.
  • A circulating copy runs about eight and a half minutes.

Scenes

  • Rigadin spits a mouthful of wine onto the people around the tasting instead of into the bucket.

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