The Associate

Year: 1979

Runtime: 94 mins

Language: French

Director: René Gainville

Comedy

Facing unemployment, an investor invents a fictitious business partner to revive his failing enterprise. The imagined ally soon drives the company to unexpected success, and his wife declares she loves the unseen partner while his son wishes the partner were his father. In a bid to regain control, the man stages the “murder” of his phantom associate and is arrested for the alleged killing.

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