History Film / LaVeriteSiJeMens

* StartMyOwn: Eddie gets tired of Victor's conservative business practices and wants to implement more aggressive/entrepreneurial methods in their business, which causes a rift between the two. Eddie then leaves Victor's business and starts his own business with his own methods.

* StartMyOwn: Eddie gets tired of Victor's conservative business practices and wants to implement more aggressive/entrepreneurial methods in their business, which causes a rift between the two. Eddie then starts his own business with his own methods.

* CoitusUninterruptus: At Patrick's house, Eddie inadvertently finds Dov and Karine having sex in a bedroom. Dov sees Eddie, but they don't stop and Eddie sheepishly apologizes and closes the door.

In UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is a struggling unemployed man. Victor Benzakhem (Richard Bohringer), a rich Sephardi Jewish cloth manufacturer from the Sentier district, takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity, mistakenly believing him to be Jewish as well. Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish textile community as he rises as a sales manager and makes himself some friends. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be an Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss's daughter, Sandra (Amira Casar).

* ShellGame: Some shady guys invite Eddie to play a Three-card Monte at the beginning, but he isn't fooled and spots the sleight of hand, which causes the chase that leads Eddie to the Sentier district.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Upon rescuing Eddie, Victor grabs a Star of David necklace on the ground and believes it belongs to Eddie (while it actually belongs to one of the thugs who tried to screw Eddie with a Three-card Monte), thus believing he's Jewish. Eddie just runs with it and his life rapidly improves from there.

* FishOutOfWater: It takes some time to Eddie to learn how to convincingly pass as a Jew, such as when he shows up at work on Saturday morning only to find the shop closed (because it's Shabbat) or when he doesn't know what "Ashkenazi" means, gets invited by Dov to celebrate Shabbat and doesn't understand Hebrew.

* FishOutOfWater: It takes some time to Eddie to learn how to convincingly pass as a Jew, such as when he shows up at work on Saturday morning only to find the shop closed (because it's Shabbat) or when he doesn't know what "Ashkenazi" means.

* FishOutOfWater: It takes some time to Eddie to learn how to convincingly pass as a Jew, such as when he shows up at work on Saturday morning only to find the shop closed (because it's Shabbat).

* ShiksaGoddess: Dov and Yvan try to woo a beautiful Swedish girl at a club at one point.

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Victor grabs a Star of David necklace on the ground and believes it belongs to Eddie (while it actually belongs to one of the thugs who tried to screw Eddie with a Three-card Monte), thus believing he's Jewish. Eddie just runs with it and his life rapidly improves from there.

In Paris, Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is a struggling unemployed man. Victor Benzakhem (Richard Bohringer), a rich Sephardi Jewish cloth manufacturer, takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity, mistakenly believing him to be Jewish as well. Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish textile community as he rises as a sales manager and makes himself some friends. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be an Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss's daughter, Sandra (Amira Casar).

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Victor grabs a Star of David necklace on the ground and believes it belongs to Eddie (while it actually belongs to one of the thugs who tried to screw him with a Three-card Monte), thus believing he's Jewish. Eddie just runs with it and his life rapidly improves from there.

In Paris, Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is a struggling unemployed man. Victor Benzakhem (Richard Bohringer), a rich Sephardi Jewish cloth manufacturer takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity, mistakenly believing him to be Jewish as well. Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish textile community as he rises as a sales manager and makes himself some friends. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be an Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss's daughter, Sandra (Amira Casar).

In Paris, Eddie Vuibert (Richard Anconina) is an unemployed man who faces financial difficulties. Victor Benzakhem (Richard Bohringer), a rich Sephardi Jewish cloth manufacturer takes Eddie into his corporation out of pity, mistakenly believing him to be Jewish as well. Eddie rapidly integrates in the Parisian Jewish textile community as he rises as a sales manager and makes himself some friends. He continues his masquerade of pretending to be an Ashkenazi Jew in order to woo his boss's daughter, Sandra (Amira Casar).

* CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: Victor grabs a Star of David collar on the ground and believes belongs to Eddie (while it actually belongs to one of the thugs who tried to screw him with a Three-card Monte), thus believing he's Jewish. Eddie just runs with it and his life rapidly improves from there.

''La Vérité si je mens!'' (English title:''Would I lie to You?'') is a 1996 French comedy film directed by Thomas Gilou.