All the gold in the world
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | All the gold in the world |
| Original title | Tout l'or du monde |
| Country of production |
France Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | René Clair |
| script | René Clair adapted from Jacques Rémy and Jean Marsan |
| production | René Clair |
| music | Georges Van Parys |
| camera | Pierre Petit |
| cut | Louisette Hautecoeur |
| occupation | |
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All gold in the world (original title: Tout l'or du monde ) is a French-Italian comedy film from 1961 by René Clair with Bourvil in three roles and Philippe Noiret as his enterprising greedy opponent.
action
Paris in 1961. Traffic jams, traffic jams everywhere. The streets of Paris are crammed with cars, there is no getting around. People's nerves are tense, and some tension breaks out into sheer aggression. An American road cruiser turns off the arterial road from Paris and reaches the rural village of Cabosse via side roads. Here the secretary Fred is already waiting for his boss, Monsieur Hardy, and praises him, who wants to buy Cabosse completely, the village in which he leads him through the cemetery. The air is cleanest in Cabosse, here the average age is said to be 30 years higher than in the rest of France. Nobody under the age of 87 dies here, some residents even lived to be 106 years old, as gravestones testify. Monsieur Hardy is electrified, he is planning to land the big business coup here and already has a name change in mind: Once Cabosse is in his possession, it will henceforth be Longuevie, meaning "Long Life".
Hardy and his Adlatus Fred have already come up with an advertising slogan: “You, who love life, come to Longuevie!” Cabosse is to be torn down and the 500-year-old place will disappear completely. Instead, Monsieur is planning to build completely new, multi-storey houses, plus of course a casino, a thermal bath and a golf course. Hardy takes possession of virtually all of the properties. All …? No, one thing, the most important one in the village center with a source that is said to be the origin of the longevity in Cabosse, he doesn't have yet. This belongs to a stubborn old farmer named Mathieu Dumont, who absolutely does not want to sell his property. After you think you've got the old cross head that far, he hesitates because Dumont wants to coordinate with his son Toine beforehand. It is an old tradition that the farm is always passed on from father to son, and thus the sale of the property would end this tradition. Fred urges the signing of the contract on behalf of his boss, but Toine is high up in the mountains with his sheep and, as Dumont assures us, will not return to the valley with his herd until the end of the summer.
Monsieur Hardy, who is always in a hurry, has no time to wait that long, and so one flies up into the mountains in a helicopter to fly Toine down to the village. However, father and son are not particularly green. Toine's father becomes more and more stubborn and threatens both the Mayor and Fred to put a load of rock salt in the ass with his rifle. Meanwhile, Hardy pulls out all the stops when it comes to advertising hype: he brings a real film star to Cabosse in the form of Stella to attract attention and photo series in magazines. During a festive procession, the stubborn old Dumont comes into town and waves his rock salt rifle around, whereupon the frightened residents flee in all directions. Toine rushes over to disarm his father, who is running amok, and saves Stella, who is hysterically screaming for help, in passing. During this action, Dumont junior is "shot down" by a press photographer and the picture ends up on the cover of a yellow press postil, whereupon the stupid Toine rises into the glittering world of half-celebrities without any intention. For Monsieur Hardy, Toine is now the perfect ambassador for his future Longuevie, and he leads the booby through Paris. The sheep-herding country egg is properly dressed up and spruced up and reunited with Stella for press photos. In the end, he is even dragged onto a television show, where he sings a silly sheep song in front of the camera. When it comes to a live broadcast to Cabosse, old Dumont also huddles in front of the camera, and thus the smoldering argument between father and son is broadcast live and publicly to French households. Toine is then chased out of Paris with disgrace and shame, back to his sheep.
In Cabosse, meanwhile, old Dumont lays his hand on the advertising signs for Longuevie and tears down one that is on his property. This falls on his head and kills the old man. When Hardy receives this good news for him from the mayor, he can hardly believe his luck. The funeral service is a complete hypocrisy and is more like a celebration. Hardy and his Adlatus Fred are pushing the new owner Toine all the more to sign for the sale of the property. But now the conscience grabs the junior, since he does not want to act against his father's legacy, and he begins, just like the hated father, to delay the sale. In order to finally get the contract signed, Hardy, Dumont and Hardy's chauffeur Jules decide to duped Toine by having the dead Dumont from beyond the world call "Toine" to ask him to conclude the contract.
Toine confides in the personable innkeeper Rosa, with whom he is secretly in love. Fred takes the opportunity and tied up with Rosa on behalf of his boss in order to finally lure Toine out of the reserve. Once again he is about to sign when Toine begins to grace himself again. Now the whole of Cabosse has risen against him, since all other citizens cannot get the expected windfall as long as Toine does not sign the property sale and thus complete the major project "Longuevie". The mayor stirs up a mood against the resister in a local administration, and the children on the street shout "enemy of the people" after him. After all, Toine is fed up with the constant pressure and now finally wants to approve the sale of the property. The bomb bursts: Toine has another brother named Martial, who is supposed to be dead. Toine, however, tells Monsieur Hardy that he and his father only ever said that Martial was dead, but he is not! Hardy and Tonie Dumont then drive to a completely remote prison, where Martial was last incarcerated. There they both learn that Martial left for Argentina six years ago, where he owns a hacienda. Monsieur Hardy and his chauffeur promptly fly to South America to see Martial there.
He has long since started a family there and is happy in Argentina. Martial agrees to sell the family's property in Cabosse if Toine finally gets married. But he's stubborn now because, as he believes, Rosa finally let him down and instead shuffled around with Fred. Toine is fed up with Cabosse and its residents and wants to leave the area. As expected, the other Cabosser have something against it, and so a vigilante group “armed” with rakes and rakes forms, which goes in search of the fugitive. He is placed on the bridge while the mayor, with the help of other Cabosser, drags Rosa here. From a distance, Victor Hardy and his people observe the scene and are close to a nervous breakdown. Finally the two lovers are in each other's arms. Monsieur Hardy then celebrates the domain of Longuevie, "where the air is so pure and where you live so long ...". He doesn't get any further when the construction speculator takes hold of his heart and collapses dead. With his passing, the engine for converting Cabosse in Longuevie also died. The hot summer wind blows through the orphaned, new business premises, the posters for the future Longuevie collapse, and the project dies in no time.
Production notes
All the gold in this world was created in the summer of 1961 in the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwest France and in the small town of Monflanquin (both exterior shots) and in the Cinéma studios in Paris. The film premiered on November 1, 1961 in Paris and was shown for the first time in Germany on December 22, 1961. It started operating in Austria on December 19, 1961.
The buildings were designed by Léon Barsacq , and his son Yves Barsacq played a supporting role in this film. Costa-Gavras and Claude Pinoteau assisted former director Clair.
The title "All the gold in the world" refers to a family saying of the Dumonts that good health is worth more than all the gold in the world.
Reviews
“After old master Jean Renoir (' Breakfast in the Green '), his generation colleague Rene Clair has also discovered the charms of country life. Inspired by the reading book anecdote about the miller von Sanssouci, he agrees to a hymn of praise for the 'virtue of rural soil closeness' (rental slogan): farmers in the film prefer sheep-rearing in the pure mountain air to fat compensation, the organizers of a health resort for the rural land are willing to pay. In addition, the director used the plot to ironic swipes at speculators, television and the new wave. Clair behaves like the old film hero, who tirelessly shoots his opponents at the rear end. With the wide spread, this and that gag hits, but most of them fail. "
Paimann's film lists summed up: “A little story that René Clair has put back to his style; supported by the comedic Brio Bourvils. "
“Two farmers, father and son, refuse to sell a piece of land, thus undoing large-scale property speculation. Entertaining village fun game, also worth seeing with Bourvil as a character comedian in three roles. "
Web links
- All the gold in the world in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ All the gold in the world in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ All the gold in the world in the Lexicon of International Films
