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 "excerpt": "Le Père Noël est une ordure is a French farce by the troupe Le Splendid, first staged in 1979 and best known through its 1982 film.",
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 "markdown": "# Le Père Noël est une ordure\n\n**Le Père Noël est une ordure** (literally, \"Santa Claus is an asshole\") is a French farce written collectively by the comedy troupe Le Splendid and first staged in 1979, best known through its 1982 film adaptation directed by Jean-Marie Poiré. The story takes place on [Christmas Eve](https://www.edgepedia.org/christmas-eve) in the Paris office of the helpline SOS Détresse Amitié, where two volunteers, Pierre and Thérèse, see their quiet shift collapse into a night of escalating catastrophes involving a depressed drag performer, a homeless woman, her violent partner dressed as [Santa Claus](https://www.edgepedia.org/santa-claus), and a neighbor with unidentifiable culinary specialties.<sup>[1](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original play | Created and performed in 1979 by the troupe Le Splendid; authors credited as Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, and Bruno Moynot<sup>[3](https://campus.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/1980-gerard-jugnot-raconte-la-genese-du-pere-noel-est-une-ordure)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[1](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> |\n| Film | Released 25 August 1982; directed by Jean-Marie Poiré; duration 1h31; music by Vladimir Cosma<sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> |\n| Cast | Anémone (Thérèse), Josiane Balasko (Madame Musquin), Marie-Anne Chazel (Zézette), Christian Clavier (Katia), Gérard Jugnot (Félix), Thierry Lhermitte (Pierre Mortez), Bruno Moynot (Preskovitch)<sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-4478/casting/)</sup> |\n| Production | Coproduction Trinacra Films–Les Films du Splendid–Films A2; producer Yves Rousset-Rouard<sup>[5](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-a-40-ans-dans-les-coulisses-dingues-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> |\n| Box office | 1,582,732 admissions at the end of its first theatrical run<sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> |\n| Stage run | Nearly 200 performances at the Gaîté-Montparnasse over two years<sup>[6](https://comediensdelatour.fr/notre-association/notre-repertoire/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> |\n| Censorship of advertising | The RATP and the City of Paris refused to rent advertising space for the film's poster, judging the title politically incorrect<sup>[7](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm%3D4478.html)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nParis, the night of December 24. The overnight office of SOS Détresse-Amitié is staffed by two volunteers: Pierre (Thierry Lhermitte), a reasonable, well-bred man who answers the phone under a false name, and Katia (Christian Clavier), a transvestite thrown out by his family who handles the crisis line with more nerve than anyone. The job is to listen. Almost nobody gets listened to tonight.\n\nThe first visitor is Thérèse (Anémone), a ragged, filthy, heavily pregnant bag lady in a Santa Claus outfit who walks in out of the cold and will not go. Pierre and Katia cannot bring themselves to put a pregnant woman back on the street, so they hide her, which requires a story: Katia will pass as Pierre's wife. It is the first lie of the night, and every lie that follows is built on it.\n\nThen the neighbors arrive. Félix (Gérard Jugnot), the fussy, henpecked pharmacist next door, brings his fiancée Josette (Marie-Anne Chazel), a sweet, simple-minded young woman devoted to him. Inconveniently, the Musquins, a priggish bourgeois couple, show up hunting for their lost dog, whose name is Zézette. Madame Musquin (Josiane Balasko) gets stuck in the building's elevator for a long stretch of the night while her husband barges into the office and collides with every cover story in it. Meanwhile the phone keeps ringing with genuinely miserable callers, whom Pierre and Katia fend off with escalating rudeness, and Zadko Preskovitch (Bruno Moynot), an insufferable neighbor of Balkan extraction, keeps knocking to force his traditional pastry, the kloug, on anyone who opens the door.\n\n**The kloug scene is the one everyone quotes.** Preskovitch finally corners Pierre and Katia and makes them taste his Christmas specialty, describing with relish how it is prepared: \"c'est roulé à la main sous les aisselles\" (it's rolled by hand under the armpits). The volunteers chew, gag, and lie their way through the politest possible horror, because the one thing the helpline cannot afford is a scene. The kloug idea came to Josiane Balasko on a trip to Croatia, her father's home city, where she tasted delicious pastries and decided to invent an abominable one. The sequence became the film's most quoted, alongside Katia's furious anti-bigotry monologue and the put-downs \"c'est cela, oui\" and \"vous êtes myope des yeux, myope du cœur et myope du cul!\"\n\nThe night compounds. Thérèse's labor ignores the office's fictions, and she gives birth to a baby girl right there among the desks and the fake marriage. Josette, in a moment of panic during a domestic scuffle, hits Félix with a clothes iron, and he is tended to while the volunteers try to keep every newcomer from discovering every other newcomer. A repairman called to fix the jammed elevator gets shot dead by accident through the front door when Pierre and Félix fire at what they take to be a threat, and the survivors, now genuinely criminal, coolly decide to cut up the body and dump the remains at the Vincennes zoo, fed to the animals. Monsieur Musquin, meanwhile, drops dead on the spot after eating a cake laced with rat poison for entirely different targets, an accident so arbitrary it becomes the film's cruelest joke. The corpse is stuffed into a toy chest and shuttled between hiding places for the rest of the night, a logistics problem in a room full of people whose profession is compassion.\n\nBy dawn the office contains a dead man, a newborn, and a household fiction that no two occupants describe the same way. Thérèse, wild and lucid by turns, vanishes back into the city, and the baby is left in the hands of Pierre and Katia, whose fake marriage has become the most functional family in the building. The film closes the loop between the babies, the mothers, and the phone that rings all night for people with nobody, and lets its survivors limp into Christmas morning.\n\n### Characters\n\nThérèse (Anémone) is the film's wildest creation: a pregnant bag lady in a Santa suit who speaks in non sequiturs and sudden flashes of terrifying lucidity, played without a flicker of condescension. Pierre (Thierry Lhermitte) is the straight man, a man of reason whose decency keeps digging him deeper; he answers the phones under a false name and ends the night an accessory. Katia (Christian Clavier) is a transvestite volunteer rejected by his family, drafted into playing Pierre's wife, and given the film's most impassioned speech about being thrown away by society; in the stage play the character was Thérèse's ex-husband, rewritten for the film. Félix (Gérard Jugnot) is the neurotic pharmacist neighbor, all fuss and bad luck. Josette (Marie-Anne Chazel) is his sweet, simple fiancée, whose name keeps being confused with Zézette, the Musquins' lost dog. Madame Musquin (Josiane Balasko) is the priggish wife who spends much of the night trapped in the elevator. Zadko Preskovitch (Bruno Moynot) is the neighbor from hell, armed with the kloug. Pierre was inspired by Paul Chazel, Marie-Anne Chazel's father, a pastor who volunteered for the real SOS Amitié.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nThe title was itself a controversy. The RATP refused to display the film's posters from late June 1982, calling it an attack on a childhood myth, and SNCF and bus-shelter operators followed suit; some cinemas softened the poster to \"Le père Noël est presque une ordure.\" Critics in 1982, including Cinéma 82, L'Humanité, and Le Nouvel Observateur, were largely hostile, a reversal of their warm reception of the 1979 play. Over time the film has been reread as a grim satire on how society tramples people in difficulty at Christmas: a suicide helpline where nobody gets heard, staffed by volunteers too busy hiding a corpse to answer with kindness.\n\n## The play\n\nThe piece grew out of the café-théâtre scene of 1970s Paris, where Le Splendid, founded in 1974 in the [Montparnasse](https://www.edgepedia.org/montparnasse) quarter, had made its name.<sup>[8](https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/10/04/mort-de-michel-blanc-le-m-tout-le-monde-du-cinema-francais_6343885_3382.html)</sup> According to a retrospective account by the association Les Comédiens de la Tour, the writing was finished in sessions between Thierry Lhermitte and Gérard Jugnot after about three months of work.<sup>[6](https://comediensdelatour.fr/notre-association/notre-repertoire/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> Gérard Jugnot described the starting point in a 1980 interview as simply an \"envie de s'amuser\", a desire to have fun.<sup>[3](https://campus.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/1980-gerard-jugnot-raconte-la-genese-du-pere-noel-est-une-ordure)</sup>\n\nSources differ by one year on when the troupe first performed it: the INA dates the creation to 1979,<sup>[3](https://campus.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/1980-gerard-jugnot-raconte-la-genese-du-pere-noel-est-une-ordure)</sup> while a documentary synopsis describes the troupe playing it successfully \"since 1978\".<sup>[9](https://www.mediatheque.be/collection/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-td9435l)</sup> The success of the run forced the troupe to move to the Gaîté-Montparnasse, where it played nearly 200 performances over two full years.<sup>[6](https://comediensdelatour.fr/notre-association/notre-repertoire/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup>\n\nThe setting is deliberately modest: the offices of S.O.S. Amitié, a real telephone helpline, on the night of December 24. Some of the actors visited volunteers of the association to learn how the evening shifts actually worked.<sup>[10](https://figurants.com/un-film-une-histoire-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> The comedy runs on door-slamming structure and misunderstanding: each new visitor brings a fresh disaster, and the plot includes harassment, blows, a lascivious dance, a consensual sexual encounter, insults, a fake hanging, and a death.<sup>[1](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/07/17/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-une-version-quebecoise-reussie)</sup> Many of its lines entered common French usage, among them \"C'est celâââ, oui…\", \"Ça dépend, ça dépasse !\", and \"Attention, ça va bouffer le lino !\".<sup>[1](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup>\n\n## The 1982 film\n\n**From stage to screen.** The producer Yves Rousset-Rouard, who had also produced the play, ran RCV, one of the first videocassette companies, and had filmed the stage version at the Gaîté with Philippe Galland, the partner of Anémone. While in [Newport, Rhode Island](https://www.edgepedia.org/newport-rhode-island), preparing the French challenge for the 1983 [America's Cup](https://www.edgepedia.org/americas-cup), he found the yacht skippers watching that recording on repeat, and decided a film should be made.<sup>[5](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-a-40-ans-dans-les-coulisses-dingues-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup> During the play's provincial tour in 1981, the troupe founded Les Films du Splendid to drive the adaptation, with the authors as half coproducers; Rousset-Rouard brought Antenne 2 into the financing, making a three-way coproduction in which he and the troupe split three quarters of the rights equally.<sup>[5](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-a-40-ans-dans-les-coulisses-dingues-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup>\n\nJean-Marie Poiré, who had already worked with Josiane Balasko on *Les Petits câlins* and *Les Hommes préfèrent les grosses*, took over direction from Patrice Leconte, who had directed the troupe's earlier films.<sup>[12](https://www.folamour.fr/2019/04/30/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/07/25/les-bronzes-font-des-petits_3453682_3246.html)</sup> Shooting ran from March 1982 in the studios of Épinay to 28 May of that year, with repeated tensions between the director and the authors over his changes; Poiré imposed his views, notably rewriting the ending. On stage the victim was cut \"into a thousand pieces\"; in the film the pieces of the corpse are fed to a lion at a zoo.<sup>[10](https://figurants.com/un-film-une-histoire-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[14](https://www.europe1.fr/culture/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-en-dix-anecdotes-1370464)</sup> Poiré also recalled a sharp conflict over developing the role of the drag performer Katia, and admitted he had cut material from Lhermitte's part.<sup>[5](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-a-40-ans-dans-les-coulisses-dingues-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup>\n\n**Release and reception.** The film opened on 25 August 1982 and drew 1,582,732 admissions by the end of its first run.<sup>[2](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> Poiré later said the title \"was not really a very good title in reality, because the film started modestly\".<sup>[14](https://www.europe1.fr/culture/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-en-dix-anecdotes-1370464)</sup> The RATP and the City of Paris refused advertising space for the poster on the grounds that the title was politically incorrect; the original poster was drawn by Reiser, then a cartoonist at *Charlie Hebdo*, while the stage promotion had used a milder image by Solé parodying a famous Menier chocolate advertisement.<sup>[7](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm%3D4478.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[15](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-les-coulisses-folles-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup> Poiré joked to *France Soir* that he would have dreamed of a Christmas release, \"to pour oil on the fire\".<sup>[15](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-les-coulisses-folles-d-une-comedie-culte)</sup>\n\nMichel Blanc, otherwise a core member of the troupe, appears only as a voice on the telephone insulting Anémone's character; he later recalled briefly replacing another actor in the stage run for fifteen days, \"and I took fifteen days of flops\".<sup>[8](https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/10/04/mort-de-michel-blanc-le-m-tout-le-monde-du-cinema-francais_6343885_3382.html)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[16](https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2018/01/14/michel-blanc-etre-fils-unique-c-est-ma-chance-et-ma-joie_5241460_3476.html)</sup> In 2013 he judged the film the troupe's best, at a time when critics had dismissed their work as provincial.<sup>[17](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/03/28/pour-moi-il-y-a-les-bons-acteurs-et-les-grands_3149874_3246.html)</sup>\n\n## Themes and legacy\n\nThe film was shot after the left's victory in the 1981 elections and, in the words of a documentary synopsis, speaks \"without taboo of misery and exclusion, of charitable associations and of social hypocrisy\", attacking the myth of generous, resistant France alongside the legend of Santa Claus.<sup>[12](https://www.folamour.fr/2019/04/30/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> A Mediapart essay reads Pierre Mortez, the pompous volunteer, as a portrait of the charitable Catholic establishment of the 1980s, and notes that the film belongs to the Splendid's broader satire of a country telling itself flattering stories.<sup>[18](https://blogs.mediapart.fr/guillaume-lasserre/blog/100826/le-splendid-josiane-balasko-et-la-conscience-sociale-du-rire)</sup> *Le Monde* identifies it as the troupe's third feature and its last collective film, the peak of the group's shared writing.<sup>[13](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/07/25/les-bronzes-font-des-petits_3453682_3246.html)</sup>\n\nIts afterlife has been sustained by repeated television broadcasts, which built its reputation over the years,<sup>[9](https://www.mediatheque.be/collection/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-td9435l)</sup> and by continuous stage revivals. New French productions toured in the 2020s,<sup>[1](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[19](https://www.comedieodeon.com/productions/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)</sup> a Melbourne French-language production answered demand from the local French community,<sup>[20](https://melbournefrenchtheatre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2018-Le-courier-australien-11042018.pdf)</sup> and a Quebec adaptation adapted and directed by André Robitaille was received as a success in 2023.<sup>[11](https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/07/17/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-une-version-quebecoise-reussie)</sup> The character Monsieur Preskovitch, with his \"kloug\" and \"doubitchous\", remains a fixture of French film-food lore, cited by *Le Monde* alongside Chaplin's boot in *The Gold Rush*.<sup>[21](https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2025/07/05/scenes-de-la-vie-culinaire-tour-de-table-de-la-grande-et-de-la-petite-bouffe-au-cinema_6618830_3476.html)</sup> Director Franck Dubosc, introducing his own Christmas film, called it \"an overwhelming reference\" for 99 percent of the French.<sup>[22](https://tvafilms.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NoelJoyeux_DossierPresse.pdf)</sup>\n\n## References\n\n1. [Le Père Noël est une ordure, Les Lucioles Production](https://lesluciolesprod.fr/spectacles/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)\n2. [Le Père Noël est une ordure, Jean-Marie Poiré official site](https://www.jeanmariepoire.com/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)\n3. [1980 : Gérard Jugnot raconte la genèse du Père Noël est une ordure, INA](https://campus.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/1980-gerard-jugnot-raconte-la-genese-du-pere-noel-est-une-ordure)\n4. [Casting du film Le Père Noël est une ordure, AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-4478/casting/)\n5. [Le Père Noël est une ordure à 40 ans : les coulisses dingues d'une comédie culte, Première](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-a-40-ans-dans-les-coulisses-dingues-d-une-comedie-culte)\n6. [Le Père Noël est une ordure, Les Comédiens de la Tour](https://comediensdelatour.fr/notre-association/notre-repertoire/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)\n7. [Le Père Noël est une ordure, Film 1982, AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm%3D4478.html)\n8. [Mort de Michel Blanc, Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/10/04/mort-de-michel-blanc-le-m-tout-le-monde-du-cinema-francais_6343885_3382.html)\n9. [Il était une fois... Le Père Noël est une ordure, Médiathèque Nouvelle](https://www.mediatheque.be/collection/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-td9435l)\n10. [Un film, une histoire : Le Père Noël est une ordure, Figurants.com](https://figurants.com/un-film-une-histoire-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)\n11. [Le père Noël est une ordure : une version québécoise réussie, TVA Nouvelles](https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/07/17/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-une-version-quebecoise-reussie)\n12. [Il était une fois… Le Père Noël est une ordure, Folamour Productions](https://www.folamour.fr/2019/04/30/il-etait-une-fois-le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure/)\n13. [Les Bronzés : retour sur un film culte, Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/07/25/les-bronzes-font-des-petits_3453682_3246.html)\n14. [Le Père Noël est une ordure en dix anecdotes, Europe 1](https://www.europe1.fr/culture/le-pere-noel-est-une-ordure-en-dix-anecdotes-1370464)\n15. [Le Père Noël est une ordure : les coulisses folles d'une comédie culte, Première](https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Le-Pere-Noel-est-une-ordure-les-coulisses-folles-d-une-comedie-culte)\n16. [Michel Blanc : « Etre fils unique, c'est ma chance et ma joie », Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2018/01/14/michel-blanc-etre-fils-unique-c-est-ma-chance-et-ma-joie_5241460_3476.html)\n17. [Michel Blanc, en 2013 : « Pour moi, il y a les bons acteurs et les grands », Le Monde](https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2013/03/28/pour-moi-il-y-a-les-bons-acteurs-et-les-grands_3149874_3246.html)\n18. 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[Noël Joyeux press kit, TVA Films](https://tvafilms.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NoelJoyeux_DossierPresse.pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Black comedy and satire films › Released 1939 to 1997*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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