Salad by the Roots

Salad by the Roots
Written byClarence Weff
Georges Lautner
Albert Kantof
Michel Audiard
Produced byGeorges Lautner
StarringLouis de Funès
Michel Serrault
Mireille Darc
Maurice Biraud
Francis Blanche
CinematographyMaurice Fellous
Edited byMichelle David
Music byGeorges Delerue
Distributed byCocinor
Release date
  • May 6, 1964 (1964-05-06) (France)
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Salad by the Roots (French: Des pissenlits par la racine, literally (Eating) dandelions by the roots which is the French idiom for Pushing up the daisies) is a Franco-Italian comedy directed by Georges Lautner and released in 1964, a year after his success with Les Tontons flingueurs, which was also set in the Parisian underworld. It benefits from music by Georges Delerue and dialogue by Michel Audiard, among whose legendary lines is Plus t'as de pognon, moins t'as de principes. L'oseille c'est la gangrène de l'âme. (The more loot you've got, the fewer your principles. Lolly is the gangrene of the soul).