Mystère à Saint-Tropez is a French-Belgian comedy film directed by Nicolas Benamou and released in 2021.
Plot.
Saint-Tropez, August 1970. The principal Paris police inspector Jean Boulin from the 36 quai des Orfèvres, real ambulant cataclysm, is sent at the property of the famous Belgian billionaire Claude Tranchant to enquire on a murder attempt that is targeting his wife. In the sumpteous villa where is reunited for the holiday the flagship of the show-business, the inspector makes a series of blunders, looking for the culprit.
Production.
Genesis and development.
The project began in late 2018, when film director Jean-Marie Poiré had evoked it in the press: "I'm writing a new film and I'd like it to be made", he stated at BFM TV. "It's a comedy with Christian Clavier. It will be a thriller film. I think it will be funny. Talking with Christian, I told him that he had never played a police role. We'll finally be able to discover, I hope so, Christian Clavier as a cop !".
The film was first titled "Do you do you Saint-Tropez", in tribute to the film "Le gendarme de Saint-Tropez" (1964), despite the fact that the song title of the generic is "Douliou-douliou Saint-Tropez".
Filming.
Filming took place in the Belgian county of the Walloon Brabant (in the suburb of Brussels) and in the Saint-Tropez gulf (Saint-Tropez, Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Ramatuelle, Gassin)
Two German spitz dogs, Plume and Lily, participate at the filming, under the direction of the Belgian dog trainer Gaëtan Doppagne, who participated at more than 200 films.