Asterix - Operation Menhir

Movie
German title	Asterix - Operation Menhir
Original title	Astérix et le Coup du menhir
Country of production	France , Germany
original language	French
Publishing year	1989
length	77 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Philippe Grimond
script	Adolf Kabatek Yannik Voight George Roubicek
production	Yannik Piel Alain Poiré
music	Michel Colombier
camera	Craig Simpson
cut	Jean Goudier
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Asterix with the British Successor  → Asterix in America

Asterix - Operation Hinkelstein (original title: Astérix et le Coup du menhir ) is the sixth Asterix cartoon from 1989. The German-French co-production is based on the comics The Seer and The Battle of the Chiefs by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny . The theatrical release in the Federal Republic was on October 12, 1989, in the GDR the film opened on March 30, 1990.

action

A group of Romans tries to kidnap Miraculix. Obelix throws a menhir at the patrol, but accidentally hits the druid. He survived this accident, but is now mentally completely confused, feeble-minded and without memory. This turns out to be a problem for the village, as only the druid knows the recipe for the magic potion and knows how to brew it.

In addition, the seer Lügfix turns up on a stormy night, an impostor who, however, can deceive all villagers, except for Asterix. This gullibility annoys Asterix. A kettle and its ingredients are made available to the feeble-minded Miraculix, so that he can see whether, through practice, he remembers the preparation of the magic potion. Much goes wrong in the druid's experiments, in which he only wildly mixes up ingredients, and a captured Roman has to serve as a test object for the mixtures. This causes it to shrink, grow, become a jackhammer, and ultimately fly away. When the seer later falls into the hands of the Romans, he prophesies the centurion's victory over the Gauls and reveals to him that the Gauls are currently without a magic potion.

The centurion sees his chance and sets off with his troops for the village. The inhabitants have meanwhile been driven away by the seer who now works for the Romans: He had claimed that the anger of the gods would come upon the Gauls, so that they fled to a small island in front of the village. In fact, the Romans find the village abandoned. But a new brew from Miraculix spreads such a stench that the Romans flee in a panic.

By chance the druid regains his senses after trying one of his potions. He then brews the actual magic drink again and after drinking it, the returned Gauls set out to pay a visit to the Romans and stir them up. The fight against the Romans ends with Obelix hitting the seer Lügfix by throwing a menhir and he, like Miraculix, is previously out of his mind.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films said that Operation Hinkelstein was “the best Asterix film by then in terms of drawing” and that the film had “humorous, poetic ideas and nice details that make up for some idle time”. Comedix.de found that the film had the best film music “of all films published to date”, but the high German synchronization was “unsuccessful” and the viewer was “put to the test”. Cinema, on the other hand, spoke of a “coherent synchronization” that made “the sixth Asterix film a pure pleasure”.

synchronization

In addition to the French and High German soundtracks, the DVD released in 2002 now also includes a dubbing in Kölsch , in which Asterix is spoken by comedian Kalle Pohl .

role	Original speaker	German version (1989)	Cologne version (2002)
Asterix	Roger Carel	Jürgen von der Lippe	Kalle Pohl
Obelix	Pierre Tornade	Günter Strack	Reinhard Brock
Miraculix	Henri Labussière	Leo Bardischewski	Ivar Combrinck
Majestix	Henri Poirier	Wolfgang Völz	Gerd Koester
Lügfix	Julien Guiomar	Christian Marshal	Fred Maire
Good mine	Marie-Anne Chazel	Ingeborg Wellmann	Eva Roeder
Automatix		Kurt Goldstein	Gudo Hoegel
Troubadix	Edgar Givry	Christian Rode	Wilhelm Beck
Distribution mix	-	Alexander Duke	Hans-Rainer Müller
Methusalix	Paul Bisciglia	Helmut Heyne	Karl-Heinz Krolzyk
centurion	Roger Lumont	Hartmut Neugebauer	Hartmut Neugebauer *
Option	Patrick Préjean	Karl Schulz	Kai Taschner

* Hartmut Neugebauer spoke the text for the dialect version a second time.

literature

• Albert Uderzo, René Goscinny: The battle of the chiefs . Ehapa, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7704-0004-1 .
• Albert Uderzo, René Goscinny: The seer . Ehapa, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7704-0019-5 .
• Albert Uderzo, René Goscinny: Asterix: Operation Hinkelstein - The big book for the film. Ehapa, 1989, ISBN 978-3-7704-0697-5 .

Web links

• Asterix - Operation Hinkelstein in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Asterix - Operation Hinkelstein in the online film database
• Asterix - Operation Menhir atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asterix - Operation Menhir. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ cf. comedix.de
3. ↑ cf. cinema.de