The Wing or the Thigh: impossible to have 10/10 in this general knowledge quiz on the film

The movie was released in 1976!

This comic film is the only encounter between the two comic actors.

Vladimir Cosma, who also composed the music for the film Rabbi Jacob.

Gérard Duchemin is the son of Charles Duchemin.

Wing or thigh was the second success of the year 1976, behind the film Les Jaws.

The character of Jacques Tricatel is the caricature of Jacques Borel, a French industrialist who launched the first hamburger fast food brand in France.

The idea came to Claude Zidi during a dinner at the “Petit Colombier” restaurant, rue des Acacias. The waiter, speaking of a chicken, addressed him by asking him “The wing or the thigh”? And the title of the film was born.

Originally, Pierre Richard was to play the role of Gérard Duchemin. Finally, the role no longer suiting him enough, he preferred to withdraw from the project and was replaced by Coluche.

Bernard Ménez was expected to replace Pierre Richard.

The track of theFloating Island was reused ten years later in the film Asterix among the Bretons.