Workers for the Good Lord
# Workers for the Good Lord

Workers for the Good Lord (French: Les Savates du bon Dieu) is a 2000 French crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, starring Stanislas Merhar, Raphaële Godin, Emil Abossolo-Mbo, Paulette Dubost and Coralie Revel. The film was chosen by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000.

## Plot

Elodie, tired of her husband Fred's generous ways, endangering the family's finances, dumps him when he gets fired. Emotionally devastated, he turns into a modern Robin Hood, robbing a post office to help a beggar, and escapes in a stolen car with Sandrine, who has long had a crush on him. They meet Maguette, an African prince turned into a penniless exile. Together the three head south.

## Cast

* Stanislas Merhar as Fred
* Raphaële Godin [fr] as Sandrine
* Emil Abossolo-Mbo as Maguette
* Coralie Revel [fr] as Elodie
* Paulette Dubost as grandmother
* Philippe Caroit as Jacques
* Christian Pernet as mechanic
* Romain R'Bibo as Miguel
* Samir Fouzari as Marouf
* Abder-Kader Dahou as Kamel
* Albert Montias as Mangin
* Fabienne Poncet as postmaster
* Aurélie Sterling as Nina

## Critical reception

Lisa Nesselson of Variety described the film as "a radical genre pastiche", "over the top", "extravagantly lensed, socio-romantic experiment" adding, "It's so bad it's good."

