Le Bourreau des cœurs (The Heartbreaker) is a 1983 French comedy film written and directed by Christian Gion and starring Aldo Maccione.[1]
The film was a commercial success, finishing 24th at the 1983 French yearly box office with 1,652,422 tickets.[2]
Plot
Vittorio, an actor confined to figurative roles, dreams of becoming a movie star. After winning a television competition, "The King of Cinema", he was noticed by Japanese producers and hired to play the role of an actor in a film shot in Tahiti.
^Cyril Laverger (2000). La société dans le cinéma français de 1975 à 1985: approche sociologique des données filmiques (in French). Vol. 2. Presses universitaires de Septentrion, 2000. ISBN2284019242.