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La Chvre English title Knock on Wood, literal translation The Goat is a 1981 French comedy film directed by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard and Grard Depardieu. It is the first of three films featuring Richard and Depardieu as a comic duo.
La Chvre features Depardieu as the toughguy private detective Campana, hired to find Marie, the daughter of a rich businessman, who has mysteriously disappeared while vacationing in Mexico. The case turns out to be complicated several attempts to find her have already failed. A psychologist, Meyer, who works for the businessman, suggests a plan. Marie is known to be extremely unlucky and accidentprone the psychologist advises sending someone equally accidentprone to find her, on the theory that what happened to her may also happen to him, and thus, following her steps while the detective tags along, the daughter can be found and returned home. Richards character Perrin is an awkward, accidentprone accountant who works for the businessman, and is chosen to implement the scheme. The adventures of an odd duo begin...
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