Character Relationship Map: Robert et Robert

Characters

• Robert Goldman (played by Charles Denner) — protagonist

  Robert Goldman is a shy and inexperienced client of the matchmaking agency, eager but uncertain about finding a partner. He considers meeting a schoolteacher, mentions a nurse encountered at the Paste...

• Robert Villiers (played by Jacques Villeret) — supporting

  Robert Villiers runs the matchmaking agency and defends its methods, claiming that even a lie may become honest if it helps cure loneliness. He manages clients, replacement meetings, group trips, and...

• Frau Villiers (played by Régine) — supporting

  Frau Villiers is connected to the matchmaking agency and visits Frau Goldman to complain about the future of their families’ sons. She objects that the two men have become partners as taxi drivers, on...

• Ali Salem (played by Mohamed Zinet) — supporting

  Ali Salem is a participant in the agency’s singles activities who announces during the return from a weekend that he will marry the woman selected for him, despite her earlier reported illness. He inv...

• Frau Goldman (played by Germaine Montero) — supporting

  Frau Goldman is involved in the family discussion surrounding the taxi-driving arrangement. She receives Frau Villiers, who complains that the two families’ sons work together in shifts and may have l...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Robert Goldman → Frau Goldman (Family Connection) — The plot places Goldman within the family tensions discussed by Frau Goldman.

  Frau Villiers's conversation with Frau Goldman concerns the future and taxi-driving partnership of the families' sons, including Goldman's family cont...

• Ali Salem → Frau Villiers (Professional Agency Client) — Her matchmaking enterprise contributes to Ali's eventual marriage.

  Frau Villiers helps operate the agency that selects a woman for Ali, and Ali later thanks the group connected with the agency.

• Ali Salem → Robert Villiers (Professional Agency Client) — Villiers's agency materially influences Ali's romantic outcome.

  Ali Salem is selected for a match through the agency and later announces that he will marry the woman chosen for him.

• Robert Goldman → Frau Villiers (Professional Client And Matchmaker) — Frau Villiers is part of the matchmaking operation Goldman turns to.

  Goldman uses the matchmaking service operated by the Villiers household, and the agency presents him with possible partners and social activities.

• Robert Goldman → Robert Villiers (Professional Client And Agency Operator) — Villiers manages the service that Goldman relies on during his search for companionship.

  Robert Goldman seeks a partner through the agency, while Robert Villiers represents and defends the agency's matchmaking methods.

• Robert Villiers → Frau Villiers (Professional Business Partners) — They jointly operate the agency and its related travel business.

  Robert Villiers and Frau Villiers run the matchmaking agency together and organize its matchmaking and singles-trip activities.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Frau Villiers → Frau Goldman (Social Acquaintances) — Their conversation links the two families through work and matchmaking concerns.

  Frau Villiers visits Frau Goldman and discusses the consequences of their sons becoming taxi-driving partners.

• Robert Goldman → Ali Salem (Social Fellow Singles) — They belong to the same social world of lonely participants seeking companionship.

  Both Robert Goldman and Ali Salem participate in the agency's singles activities and are present within the group surrounding the later wedding invita...

Story Analysis

A comic exploration of loneliness, matchmaking, social awkwardness, and the unexpected companionship formed through imperfect human connections.

Plot Progression

1. The Business of Hope — Robert Villiers and Frau Villiers operate a matchmaking agency using computer-assisted affinities and persuasive promises. The business also turns singles' activities into organized travel.
2. Goldman's Awkward Search — Robert Goldman seeks companionship while considering possible meetings and discussing a nurse encountered at the Pasteur Institute. His uncertainty becomes visible as he tries to learn social approach...
3. Rules of Introduction — A dance lesson demands physical contact and a formal password, worsening Goldman's embarrassment. His concerns about work, money, age, and family reveal the pressure behind his search.
4. Promises Under Strain — A promised meeting is canceled because of illness, but the agency immediately offers a surprise replacement. Its salesmanship repeatedly meets the awkward realities of loneliness and incompatibility.
5. A Family-Made Celebration — Family concerns about taxi work intersect with the singles' activities. Ali announces his marriage, invites the group to the wedding, and treats them as a newly formed family.