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La Cage aux Folles
1978ANNO100′DURATAÉdouard MolinaroREGIA
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La Cage aux Folles (, also released as Birds of a Feather) is a 1978 comedy film co-written and directed by Édouard Molinaro, based on Jean Poiret's 1973 play. It stars Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault as a gay couple operating a drag nightclub on the French Riviera, Rémi Laurent as the former's son, and Michel Galabru and Carmen Scarpitta as his new fiancée's ultraconservative parents. The French-language picture was a French-Italian co-production by United Artists. The film was released in Italy on 20 October 1978 and in France on 25 October. A considerable commercial success, it became one of the highest-grossing foreign-language films released in the United States. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for three Oscars: Best
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