It's André Deed in his first year of playing Boireau. His mother brings him to an architect's office, and he gets the job.... it appears to be that of dogsbody, a gopher. In the process of going for this and that, he continually bumps into things, drops things, falls into things, and so forth.
It's early days for slapstick, and that's what it consisted of in this stage of the cinema: people chasing endlessly after runaway objects (be they brides, grooms, horses or wheels of cheese) and inept young men who fall into gaping holes, then arise to fall into others. that's what Deed does here as Boireau, just as he would as Cretinetti for the next eight years.
It's early days for slapstick, and that's what it consisted of in this stage of the cinema: people chasing endlessly after runaway objects (be they brides, grooms, horses or wheels of cheese) and inept young men who fall into gaping holes, then arise to fall into others. that's what Deed does here as Boireau, just as he would as Cretinetti for the next eight years.