History Film / TheMadAdventuresOfRabbiJacob

Meanwhile in France, Victor Pivert (De Funès), a chauvinistic, bad-tempered and slightly xenophobic businessman, is on the way to his daughter's wedding. He and his driver, Salomon (Creator/HenriGuybet), have a car accident in which Pivert's car (carrying a speed boat) flips upside-down into a lake. When Salomon, who is Jewish, refuses to help because Shabbat has just begun, Pivert fires him, much to Salomon's content. As Pivert goes to find assistance in an empty bubblegum factory, he involuntarily helps Mohammed Larbi Slimane (Creator/ClaudeGiraud), an Arab revolutionist leader, to escape a group of SecretPolice agents from the regime he fights against, who are led by Farès (Renzo Montagnani).

Meanwhile in France, Victor Pivert (De Funès), a chauvinistic, bad-tempered and slightly xenophobic businessman, is on the way to his daughter's wedding. He and his driver, Salomon (Henri Guybet), have a car accident in which Pivert's car (carrying a speed boat) flips upside-down into a lake. When Salomon, who is Jewish, refuses to help because Shabbat has just begun, Pivert fires him, much to Salomon's content. As Pivert goes to find assistance in an empty bubblegum factory, he involuntarily helps Mohammed Larbi Slimane (Creator/ClaudeGiraud), an Arab revolutionist leader, to escape a group of SecretPolice agents from the regime he fights against, who are led by Farès (Renzo Montagnani).

* InstantExpert: Pivert is dragged into a Hassidic dance and keeps up surprisingly well, despite being quite a clumsy individual and obviously never doing it before. It was "a miracle" according to him. In RealLife, De Funès trained for two months to perform it.

* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Pivert's daughter Antoinette and Slimane at the end.]]

** He recognizes a Mao Tse-tung quote from Farès (although not the Che Guevara one from Slimane).

* DepravedDentist:
** Well, not so depraved than "in-a-hurry-'cause-she's-marrying-her-daughter-today", but Pivert's dentist wife is still seen doing a rather half-assed job on her poor patient.
** Later, Farès threatens to torture her with her own instruments.

* FishOutOfWater: Pivert is a Christian and knowns practically nothing about Judaism and Jewish culture, and finds himself having to act as a rabbi.

* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Pivert fires Salomon as they are stuck on a river in the middle of nowhere... because Salomon leaves him there since it's shabbat and he's forbidden to work.

* HappyEnding: By the end, nobody has died[[note]]well, nobody outside perhaps the two mooks of Farès who shoot themselves with chewing gum stuck in the cannon of their pistols when chasing Pivert and Slimane right after the chewing gum factory mayhem, anyway[[/note]], Pivert has completely shrugged off his prejudices about Jews, Slimane's revolution is a success and he can return victorious to his country with Farès now serving him, and Pivert's daughter will marry a man she loves, Slimane (now a chief of state, which suits Pivert's standards - in Pivert's words "A President of the Republic!", when his wife gets worried about who's going to marry her daughter now).

** When forced to do a hassidic dance, he executes it flawlessly and is even amazed by his own prowess.

--->'''Rabbi Jacob:''' ''(to the taxi driver)'' You see my boy? Always believe in miracles!

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Slimane is a rebel leader of a country--somewhere. Seemingly in North Africa, part of what was once the French colonial empire.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage

* HasAType: Mohammed Larbi Slimane has big thing for redheads. When they're beautiful at least.

* HappyEnding: By the end, nobody has died[[note]]well, nobody outside perhaps the two mooks of Farès who shoot themselves when chewing gum is stuck in the cannon of their pistols, anyway[[/note]], Pivert has completely shrugged off his prejudices about Jews, Slimane's revolution is a success and he can return victorious to his country with Farès now serving him, and Pivert's daughter will marry a man she loves, Slimane (now a chief of state, which suits Pivert's standards - in Pivert's words "A President of the Republic!", when his wife gets worried about who's going to marry her daughter now).

* HappyEnding: By the end, nobody has died[[note]]well, nobody outside perhaps the two mooks of Farès who shoot themselves when chewing gum is stuck in the cannon of their pistols, anyway[[/note]], Pivert has completely shrugged off his prejudices about Jews, Slimane's revolution is a success and he can return victorious to his country with Farès now serving him, and Pivert's daughter will marry Slimane (now a chief of state, which suits Pivert's standards - in Pivert's words "A President of the Republic!", when his wife gets worried about who's going to marry her daughter now).

* HappyEnding: By the end, nobody has died, Pivert has completely shrugged off his prejudices about Jews, Slimane's revolution is a success and he can return victorious to his country with Farès now serving him, and Pivert's daughter will marry Slimane (now a chief of state, which suits Pivert's standards - in Pivert's words "A President of the Republic!", when his wife gets worried about who's going to marry her daughter now).

* HasAType: Mohammed Larbi Slimane has big thing for redheads.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Mohammed Larbi Slimane can't resist a redhead.

* IdentityImpersonator: The two protagonists.

* InspectorJavert: Commissioner Andréani
* InstantExpert: Pivert is dragged into a Hassidic dance and keeps up surprisingly well, despite being quite a clumsy individual and obviously never doing it before. It was "a miracle" according to him. In RealLife, De Funès trained for two months for it.

* JustFollowingOrders: Farès only follows orders from the dictatorship he serves. As soon as Slimane is proclaimed as new ruler of his country, he bows down and apologizes.

* LoveAtFirstSight: [[spoiler:Antoinette and Slimane.]]
* MalignedMixedMarriage: Pivert is flabbergasted at the sight of a marriage between a white man and a black woman when being stuck in the traffic jam the wedding causes in a village. He's the only person who's bothered by this fact, everyone else is either happy for the couple or doesn't care. Then the AshFace / {{Blackface}} gag ensues as a sort of LaserGuidedKarma for his racism.

** Salomon, even though he's quite bitter towards his boss (for very good reasons).
** Special mention goes to the guys who accompany Rabbi Jacob to the airport. Their cab ends up stuck in a traffic jam and time is running out, so what do they do? They simply lift the cab and carry it to the free part of the road.
--->'''Rabbi Jacob:''' You see my boy? Always believe in miracles.

* FauxFluency: Tzippé "Mamé" Schmoll was played by the American actress Janet Brandt. She didn't speak French, so she had to learn the role phonetically, hence she sounds off compared to everyone else.

* TheFullNameAdventures

%%* HappyEnding

* InstantExpert: Pivert is dragged into a Hassidic dance and keeps up surprisingly well, despite being quite a clumsy individual and obviously never doing it before. It was "a miracle" according to him.

* {{Qurac}}: The fictional Arab/Middle Eastern country Slimane comes from goes unnamed.

* FalseTeethTomfoolery: As Germaine Pivert talks to her husband, she slams repeatedly on a table at her dentist's office, making several sets of false teeth open and close.

''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob''), often shortened to ''Rabbi Jacob'', is a 1973 French comedy directed by Gérard Oury. It stars Creator/LouisDeFunes in one of his most famous roles. Music/VladimirCosma composed the soundtrack.

Now on the run from both Farès and the French police, Pivert and Slimane bound and gag two rabbis at the very airport Jacob is awaited to by the Schmoll family and take their clothes to disguise. Pivert is then mistaken for Jacob by the Schmolls, and brought into the Jewish community in Paris. HilarityEnsues.

Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is a beloved rabbi from New York who has lived there for 30 years. One day, the French side of his family, the Schmolls, invite him to preside over the Bar Mitzvah of his young nephew David. Jacob boards a plane to leave America for his birthland of France, and his young friend Rabbi Samuel comes with him.

''Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob'' (''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob''), often shortened to ''Rabbi Jacob'', is a 1973 French comedy directed by Gérard Oury. It stars Creator/LouisDeFunes in one of his most famous roles.