The Big Restaurant

The Big Restaurant
Directed byJacques Besnard
Written byJean Halain
Louis de Funès
Jacques Besnard
Produced byAlain Poiré
StarringLouis de Funès
Bernard Blier
CinematographyRaymond Lemoigne
Edited byGilbert Natot
Music byJean Marion
Distributed byGaumont Distribution
Release date
  • 7 September 1966 (1966-09-07) (France)
Running time
85 minutes (France)
82 minutes (Germany)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench/German

The Big Restaurant (French: Le grand restaurant) is a French comedy thriller film from 1966, directed by Jacques Besnard, written by Jean Halain and Louis de Funès and starring Louis de Funès and Bernard Blier. The film is known under the titles The Restaurant or The Big Restaurant (international English title), What's Cooking in Paris (U.S.), El gran restaurante (Spain), Das große Restaurant (East Germany), Oscar hat die Hosen voll (West Germany), Grand restaurant pana Septima (Czechoslovakia) and Chi ha rubato il presidente? (Italy).