A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
as Antoine Tartarin
as Mrs. Bézuquet
as Barbassou
as Prince Gregori of Montenegro
as Victor Bombonnel
as Costecade
as Fracca
as Bézuquet
as Baja
as Ladévèze
as Bravida
as Pianist
as Berthe Fracca
as Singer in the train carriage
as Locomotive engineer
as Porter
as Priest who reinflates the tire of his moped
as Man broken down in the desert
as Director of the 'Mitaine' circus
as Motorist
as Scout
as Scout
as Radio reporter
as Gamekeeper who shoots himself in the foot
as Tholosan, cafe owner
as Owner of the blind lion
as Jeanne, maid
