Aristocats
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Aristocats |
| Original title | The Aristocats |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| script |
Ken Anderson Larry Clemmons Eric Cleworth Vance Garry Tom McGowan Tom Rowe Julius Svendsen Frank Thomas Ralph Wright |
| production |
Winston Hibler Wolfgang Reitherman |
| music |
George Bruns songs: Robert B. Sherman Richard M. Sherman Terry Gilkyson Floyd Huddleston Al Rinker Orchestration: Walter Sheets |
| camera | Ken Anderson |
| cut | Tom Acosta |
Aristocats (Original title: The Aristocats ) is the 20th full-length animated film from Walt Disney Studios and was released in 1970. The film cost about 4 million US dollars and grossed about 18 million in theaters. It is also the first Disney film in the production of which Walt Disney only contributed to the idea.
action
In Paris in 1910, Madame Adelaide Bonfamille, aged and wealthy, installed her beloved cat Duchesse and her children Marie, Toulouse and Berlioz as heirs and disappointed her butler Edgar with this bizarre will with this bizarre will, who also figured he had better chances of becoming a millionaire. In order to preserve these chances, the butler now makes the favored cat family disappear by abandoning them far away from the capital. He comes into conflict with the bloodhound Napoleon and his basset- friend Lafayette.
The film now tells an adventure novel about the attempt of the cat family to get back home. The family tree-ennobled Angora cat Duchesse and her three children finally overcome all challenges with humor and various sung songs and with the help of the street cat Thomas O'Malley (complete: Abraham de Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley) and the goose tourists Amelia and Abigail Gabble follow up again Paris back. Since the children are too tired to walk to Madame Bonfamille's house, they spend the night in Thomas 'abode, an attic room, where they meet the street cat band led by Thomas' friend Swingy. Duchesse and Thomas fall in love, but Duchesse does not want to leave Madame because she and her children are her only purpose in life. The next morning she says goodbye to Thomas with a heavy heart.
Despite the warnings from the mouse Roquefort, the family of cats enters their home, but the butler Edgar puts a sack on them and hides them in the stable of Froufrou, the horse, until they are scheduled to be picked up in Timbuktu . Roquefort manages to catch up with Thomas, who immediately rushes to the family's aid. Meanwhile, the mouse is supposed to organize Swingy and his street cat band to the rescue. It is thanks to the cooperation of the animals that instead of the cats, the scheming butler in the chest is sent to Timbuktu. Thomas is accepted into the household as a “man in the house”.
At the end you learn that the butler Edgar should be used as the actual steward for the inheritance. Since this can no longer be found, Madame Bonfamille bequeathed her entire fortune to all cats in Paris.
production
Aristocats is the film that Walt Disney himself was involved in the idea and conception of, but which was then produced entirely without the producer and Mickey Mouse inventor, who died in 1966 . The title of the film is a suitcase word from Aristocrats and Cats . Literally translated, the title is roughly to be understood as noble cats .
It was one of the first in a long series of productions implemented by Wolfgang Reitherman . With a budget of four million US dollars and around 250 employees, Aristocats was one of the major projects. The script was a collaboration between Larry Clemmons , Vance Gerry , Ken Anderson , Frank Thomas , Eric Cleworth , Julius Svendsen and Ralph Wright and was based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe . For the production, 325,000 drawings, 1,125 scenes and 900 backgrounds were made within four years under Milt Kahl , Ollie Johnston , Frank Thomas and John Lounsbery and edited by Tom Acosta .
The score was composed by George Bruns . Floyd Huddleston and Al Rinker wrote Everybody Wants to Be a Cat , Terry Gilkyson was for Thomas O'Malley (sung by Phil Harris ) responsible and Richard and Robert B. Sherman wrote She Never Felt Alone , Scales and arpeggios as well as the theme song The Aristocats , sung by Maurice Chevalier . The 80-year-old at the time had actually withdrawn, but was happy to take on the task - also as a bow to his friend Walt Disney, for whom he had previously appeared in several films.
synchronization
The German dubbing was created in 1971 in the studios of Simoton Film GmbH Berlin . Heinrich Riethmüller was responsible for the dialogues, lyrics and dubbing . Paul Kuhn sang the theme song .
| role | Original speaker | German voice |
| Thomas O'Malley | Phil Harris | Edgar Ott |
| Duchess | Eva Gabor | Brigitte Grothum |
| Adelaide Bonfamille | Hermione Baddeley | Gisela Reissmann |
| Berlioz | Dean Clark | Steffen Müller |
| Marie | Liz English | Angelika Pawlowski |
| Toulouse | Gary Dubin | Ralph Richardt |
| Roquefort | Sterling Holloway | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Napoleon | Pat Buttram | Eduard Wandrey |
| Lafayette | George Lindsey | Walter Gross |
| Abigail Gabble | Monica Evans | Erika Rehhahn |
| Amelia Gabble | Carole Shelley | Inge Wolffberg |
| Uncle Waldo | Bill Thompson | Peter Schiff |
| Georges Hautecourt | Charles Lane | Herbert Weissbach |
| Edgar | Roddy Maude-Roxby | Klaus W. Krause |
| Swingy | Scatman Crothers | Klaus Havenstein |
| Siamese cat (Shun Gon) | Paul Winchell | Dieter Kursawe |
| English Hangover (Hit Cat) | Lord Tim Hudson | Ingo Osterloh |
| Italian tomcat (Peppo) | Vito Scotti | Oscar Sabo junior |
| Russian Hangover (Billy Boss) | Thurl Ravenscroft | Michael Chevalier |
| Frou-Frou | Nancy Kulp | Inge Estate |
| Head chef | Peter Renaday | Wolfgang Völz |
| Drivers | Benno Hoffmann | |
| Drivers | Reinhard Mey |
Awards
- 1971: Grammy (nomination)
- 1972: Sant Jordi
- 1973: Golden canvas
- 1981: Golden canvas with star
criticism
“The lovable adventures of a cat family from a wealthy family in Paris at the turn of the century (...) A pretty Disney cartoon that lives from the well-observed peculiarities of cats. Elements from earlier Disney films are successfully combined, but not particularly original. The highlight is the furious Dixieland number 'Cats need an awful lot of music' "
background
Napoleon goes back to Napoleon Bonaparte , Lafayette to Marquis de La Fayette . Berlioz goes back to Hector Berlioz , Toulouse to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , both are musically and artistically gifted.
The role of Uncle Waldo was the final role for Bill Thompson, who died shortly after the film opened in theaters on July 15, 1971.
Publications on DVD / BD
- Aristocats. Walt Disney masterpieces . 4: 3 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
- Aristocats. Special Collection - Walt Disney Masterpieces . 4: 3 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
- Aristocats. Special Collection - Walt Disney Masterpieces . 16: 9 format. Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
- Aristocats. Special Edition (BD) . 16: 9 format. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2012
- Aristocats. Disney Classics (BD & DVD). 16: 9 format. 2017
Soundtrack
- George Bruns, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Floyd Huddleston, Al Rinker, Terry Gilkyson, Heinrich Riethmüller: The Aristocats. Original motion picture soundtrack . Polydor, Hamburg 1994, sound carrier no. 523 250-2 - contains both the original version and the German version of the songs
literature
- Walt Disney et al .: Aristocats. (Original title: Aristocats ). Verlag Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1972, (126 pages), ISBN 3-222-10699-1 . (Authorized edition based on the famous film. German by Doris Mühringer .)
- Frank Thomas , Ollie Johnston : Disney Animation. The Illusion of Life. Abbeville Press, New York 1981, (575 pages), ISBN 0-89659-698-2 .
- Elmar Biebl, Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf: The films of Walt Disney. The magical world of animation. (2nd edition, 177 pages), Milchstraße, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-89324-117-5 .
Web links
- Aristocats in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aristocats in the online film database
- Cats need an awful lot of music on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aristocats in the Disney Dubbing Archive
- ↑ Disney Wiki: The Aristocats
- ^ Lexicon of international film (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
