
The Associate
The Associate
A Comedy film released in 1979, The Associate runs 1h 34m and comes from Belgium. Soap2Day lists it with René Gainville directing and Michel Serrault and Claudine Auger in the cast. It holds 6.5/10 from 11 votes. An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
- Genre: Comedy
- Country: Belgium, France, Germany
- Director: René Gainville
- Cast: Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger, Catherine Alric, Judith Magre, Bernard Haller, Marco Perrin, Jean Martin, Fabrice Josso, Henri Virlogeux, Mathieu Carrière, Vadim Glowna, Astrid Frank

















