The Big Restaurant (1966)
Le Grand Restaurant
fiction · 86 min · France
Directed by: Jacques Besnard
Set in: Paris and the snowy Alps at Val d'Isère
Septime, owner of a grand Paris restaurant, is drawn into a police operation that leads him to the snowy mountains of Val d'Isère.
Where it was filmed
- Val d'Isère
Savoie · France
Climactic trap and chase sequence: village streets, ski slopes, an ice rink and nearby hairpin roads; said to be one of the first films, possibly the first, shot in Val d'Isère; snowstorms halted the shoot for ten days
Val-d'Isère on MR. ALPS - Barrage de Tignes (Chevril dam), Tignes
Savoie · France
The three cars of the chase cross the Tignes dam
Tignes on MR. ALPS
Filming locations as stated in the sources below. The story may be set somewhere else.
Also filmed nearby
Les Bronzés font du ski1979 · Val-d'Isère +1
Les Revenants2012-2015 · Le Semnoz +2
Fallait pas !...1996 · Val-d'Isère +1
Taxi 32003 · Val-d'Isère +1
The Big Blue1988 · Tignes +1
À boire2004 · Tignes +1
Slalom2020 · Les Arcs +2
Sources
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