The White Truck
The White Truck is a 1943 French comedy drama film directed by Léo Joannon and starring Jules Berry, Blanchette Brunoy and François Périer.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Douarinou.
Plot
A young garage mechanic is hired for an unusual assignment, to drive a white truck around France carrying the corpse of a famed gypsy leader.Cast
- Jules Berry as Shabbas - the chief of the northern gypsies
- Blanchette Brunoy as Germaine
- François Périer as François Ledru - a young mechanic
- Fernand Charpin as Courbassié - gypsies' southern ambassador
- Marguerite Moreno as The King's Widow
- Roger Karl as Acho
- Mila Parély as Madame Dupont
- Jean Parédès as Ernest
- Marcelle Monthil as Germaine's mother
- Charles Lemontier as Germaine's father
- Edmond Beauchamp as gypsy
- Robert Berri as pump attendant
- Georges Bever as ticket inspector