La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
Directed byCharles Nemes
Produced byChristian Fechner
StarringÉric Judor
Ramzy Bedia
Marina Foïs
Serge Riaboukine
CinematographyÉtienne Fauduet
Edited byDominique Galliéni
Music byJean-Claude Vannier
Distributed byUGC
Fox Distribution
Release date
  • 28 March 2001 (2001-03-28)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$9.6 million
Box office$20.6 million[1]

La Tour Montparnasse Infernale is a 2001 French crime comedy film directed by Charles Nemes and co-written and starred by Eric Judor, Ramzy Bedia and Pierre-François Martin-Laval. When it came out in cinemas in Canada, it was translated into Don't Die Too Hard in reference to Die Hard. The movie is a box office success, grossing 20.6 million for a budget of 9.6 million. A prequel, La Tour 2 contrôle infernale was released in 2016.

Plot

Éric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Eric thinks that he has a date with beautiful Marie-Joëlle (real name is Stéphanie Lanceval), They stay at work late, but a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie-Joëlle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Éric and Ramzy swing into action.

Cast

  • Eric Judor and Ramzy Bedia as the windows washers
  • Marina Foïs as Stéphanie Lanceval (Marie-Joëlle)
  • Serge Riaboukine as Michel Vignault a.k.a. Machin
  • Michel Puterflam as Lanceval
  • Bô Gaultier de Kermoal as Ming
  • Pierre Semmler as Hans
  • Edgar Givry as Greg
  • Georges Trillat as Peter
  • Bruce Johnson as Chris
  • Laurence Pollet-Villard as Sylvie
  • Pierre-François Martin-Laval as Tran
  • Olivier Balazuc as Fils 4 Lanceval
  • Jean-Claude Dauphin as Le commissaire
  • Étienne Fauduet as Séparatiste corse
  • Benoît Giros as Jean-Louis
  • François Goizé as Pilote hélicoptère
  • Vincent Haquin as Chef GIGN
  • Thibault Lacroix as Fils 1 Lanceval
  • Grégory Lemoigne as Fils 3 Lanceval
  • Frederic Moreau as Séparatiste basque
  • Gyuri Nemes as Séparatiste Breton
  • Marc Raffat as Pilote hélicoptère
  • Lionel Roux as Homme du RAID
  • Philippe Schwartz as Fils 5 Lanceval
  • Volodia Serre as Fils 2 Lanceval
  • Joey Starr as Youston
  • Omar Sy as Taxi driver
  • Fred Testot as Policier fumeur

References

  1. "LA TOUR MONTPARNASSE INFERNALE (2001)". JP' Box-Office. Retrieved 2001-03-28.


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