A doctor prescribes adultery as medicine — what could possibly go wrong?
A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
Writing
Ridiculous premise played absolutely straight — peak farce construction.
Director
Pierre Weill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1935 French cinema loved mocking bourgeois marriage; this predates Hollywood's screwball boom by months.
Director Pierre Weill made only three features — this rare surviving print is a lucky find for farce historians.
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