L'Emmerdeur [A Pain in the A**] 1973

Avec Lino Ventura (Raf Milan), Jacques Brel (Francois Pignon), Caroline Cellier, Jean-Pierre Darras, Nino Castelnuovo, Angela Cardile, Michele Gammino, Xavier Depraz, François Dyrek …

M. Milan est un tueur à gages qui doit exécuter son contrat depuis sa chambre d'hôtel donnant sur le palais de justice de Montpellier. Mais son voisin, François Pignon, représentant en chemises délaissé par son épouse, tente de se suicider en se pendant à la tuyauterie de la salle de bains et provoque une inondation. Milan persuade l'hôtelier de ne pas appeler la police, promettant de veiller lui-même sur le dépressif pour éviter une récidive. Il se trouve alors englué irrémédiablement dans les problèmes de Pignon au détriment de sa mission.

Professional hit man Ralf Milan takes a room in a hotel opposite the law courts in Montpellier - his mission: to assassinate a key witness in a gangland trial. In an adjacent room, François Pignon is about to commit suicide. Now that his wife has abandoned him for another man, he has no reason to live, so he tries to hang himself. The attempt fails, and the result is a burst water pipe that starts to flood Milan’s room. To keep the authorities away, Milan has no other option than to deal with Pignon himself. Having come to regard Milan as a friend, Pignon appeals to him to help him repair his broken marriage and his broken life. To keep his nuisance neighbour quiet, Milan can only agree, but all too soon his patience is tested to its very limit – and beyond..