Asterix - victory over Caesar

Movie
German title	Asterix - victory over Caesar
Original title	Asterix et la Surprise de César
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1985
length	Cinema: 77 minutes DVD: 74 minutes
Age rating	FSK o. A.
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Director	Gaëtan Brizzi , Paul Brizzi
script	Pierre Tchernia
production	Yannik Piel
music	Vladimir Cosma
camera	Philippe Lainé
cut	Monique Isnardon , Robert Isnardon
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Asterix conquers Rome Successor  → Asterix with the British

Asterix - victory over Caesar (Original title: Astérix et la surprise de César ) is the fourth Asterix - Cartoons of 1985, mainly on the two comic books Asterix the Legionary and Asterix the Gladiator is based.

action

When Obelix is on the way to the forest to hunt wild boars with Asterix , he meets Falbala , with whom he falls in love on the spot. Falbala is the beautiful niece of Majestix , who has just returned from Lutetia , where she graduated from university. To Obelix's chagrin, Falbala is already engaged to Tragicomix , the son of a chief.

In Rome, Gaius Obtus is supposed to host an overwhelming victory celebration for Julius Caesar . If the celebration were successful, Caesar would make him the richest man in Rome; should he fail, however, he would be thrown to the lions to eat.

When Falbala and Tragicomix are walking in the forest of Aremorica , they are captured by a troop of Romans under the ambitious but inexperienced Decurio Superbus. Instead of impressing the centurion with the capture, he is appalled and angry with Superbus - knowing full well that this would only provoke the Gauls to attack the Roman camp to free their friends. So he sends Superbus together with the prisoners to Condate , from where they are to be sent to Africa with the Foreign Legion.

A short time later, the angry Gauls actually overrun the Roman camp, where they are disappointed to find the absence of their friends. Asterix and Obelix are now supposed to follow the Romans and bring Falbala and Tragicomix back. In Condate, they learn that the two were sent to a camp in the African desert. That is why they decide to join the Foreign Legion as this is the quickest way to follow them. After both of them have successfully completed their training at Centurion Briseradius, they continue to Massilia , where they board a ship to Africa.

Meanwhile, Falbala and Tragicomix are in the Roman camp of Centurion Aerobus in the African desert. They manage to escape from the camp, but only the vastness of the desert lies ahead of them. But apparently the two are lucky when a camel caravan passes by and they are taken to the sea. However, it soon turns out that they are slave traders, who immediately sell the two of them to the slave trader Farfelus in Rome. In Rome, the chief gladiator trainer Gaius Obtus blackmailed the dealer Farfelus so that he gave him the two Gauls as a present.

In the desert, Asterix and Obelix meet the caravan of slave traders and learn from them that they have sold the two Gauls as slaves. So the two are now on their way to Rome. On site, in a similar way to Gaius Obtus, they manage to find out from Farfelus to whom he sold Tragicomix and Falbala. In the meantime, Falbala and Tragicomix Caesar are performed in Rome. Since the two Caesar do not want to submit, they are to be thrown to the lions in the Colosseum .

Meanwhile, Gaius Obtus discovers the incredible powers of Obelix and wants to forcibly recruit him and Asterix, whom he believes to be his trainer, as gladiators. Since Asterix left his magic potion lying around while visiting the thermal baths and on top of that quarreled with Obelix and is therefore briefly on the road alone, the men of Gaius Obtus can capture him and lock him in a cellar dungeon. Obelix manages to track down Asterix and rescue him from the dungeon just before it threatened to fill up with water. In the meantime, Idefix has seen the bottle with the magic drink floating past in a sewer and follows it - unnoticed by Obelix.

Asterix and Obelix learn that Falbala and Tragicomix are in the Colosseum. Since they cannot go to the Colosseum because of the many guards, they decide to volunteer to report to Gaius Obtus as gladiators. He was delighted to send them to his gladiator trainer Briseradius, with whom the two had already made the acquaintance in Condate as a trainer for the Foreign Legionaries.

In the meantime, Idefix has taken the bottle with the magic drink out of the sewage and is on the way to the Colosseum, where the victory celebration for Caesar is just beginning. Since the Gallic charioteer Formulix is ​​late, Asterix and Obelix take over the chariot race, which they also win. After the two have also won the gladiatorial match, Falbala and Tragicomix are sent into the arena with them. Just as the lions are released to join them, Idefix comes with the magic potion as a savior in need. While Asterix and Tragicomix defeat the lions strengthened by the magic potion, Obelix is ​​so infatuated by seeing Falbala again that he accidentally runs over a column and thus brings part of the Colosseum to collapse. Caesar generously grants the Gauls freedom and so they can return to their village where they celebrate a festival.

background

To implement the representation of the characters according to the comics, the 149 individual figures and 6,000 backgrounds were designed with 355 different colors, for which half a ton of paint, 12,900 pencils and 1,000 brushes were used. In addition, 50 kilometers of adhesive tape were used, 70,000 celluloid foils were colored and 45,000 sheets of paper were painted to record a total of 120,000 drawings with a special trick camera.

The film uses a number of quotations from Latin. Thus, after the demolition of the Roman camp, the centurion used a modification of the words "I came, I saw, I won" (" Veni, vidi, vici ") by saying: "I came, I saw, I did not win" ( "Veni, vidi, non vici"). After Asterix leaves him in the same scene, the centurion says the sentence: “The die has been cast” (“ Alea iacta est ”). In addition, the gladiators greet Caesar with the words “ Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant ” (“Hail, Caesar, the doomed greet you!”).

It was released in theaters in France on December 11, 1985, in the Federal Republic of Germany on March 6, 1986 and in the GDR on October 9, 1987.

The title song Astérix est là , composed for the film by Vladimir Cosma , was sung by Plastic Bertrand , who also sings the title with German text (Asterix ist da) for the German version .

In the German dubbing of 1985 there was a rare case that the two Bud Spencer voice actors Wolfgang Hess and Arnold Marquis were used together in a film.

Reviews

"Quite entertaining cartoon, albeit without particularly good animation and the esprit of the original."

- Lexicon of international film

"Entertainment for fans, perfectly drawn and served in a funny way."

- Berliner Zeitung

"The fact that the Colosseum in Rome is in ruins is not to blame for anyone other than the good-natured Obelix, who accidentally hit a pillar in the classical times, so that the amphitheater collapsed. Otherwise, Rene Goscinny's and Albert Uderzo's cartoon film (1985) is not exactly squeamish about the Eternal City and the Romans. Critics, however, complained about the fuzzy movements of the characters and weak color compositions. "

- The mirror

Awards

The film was awarded the Golden Screen in 1987 for reaching three million moviegoers within 18 months .

synchronization

role	Original speaker	German version (1985)	Berlin version (2002)
Asterix	Roger Carel	Frank Zander	Michael Pan
Obelix	Pierre Tornade	Wolfgang Hess	Günter Schubert
Gaius Obtus	Pierre Mondy	Fred Maire	Tom Deininger
Julius Caesar	Serge Sauvion	Christian Rode	Christian Rode
Miraculix	Henri Labussière	Arnold Marquis	Wolfgang Völz
Breeze radius	Roger Lumont	Niels Clausnitzer	Andreas Mannkopff
Falbala	Severine Morisot	Christina Hoeltel	Carola Ewert
Tragicomix	Thierry Ragueneau	Sascha Hehn	David Nathan
Majestix	Jean-Pierre Darras	Walter Reichelt	Jürgen Kluckert

Soundtrack

• Vladimir Cosma , Plastic Bertrand : Astérix et la surprise de César. Original motion picture soundtrack . On: Asterix chez les Bretons • Asterix et la surprise de Cesar . Cosma Cinéma Collection, Vol. 20. Pomme Musi / Larghetto Music / Sony, s. l. 1995, sound carrier no. 951292 - Original recording of the film music conducted by the composer.

Web links

• Asterix - defeating Caesar in theInternet Movie Database(English)
• Asterix - Victory over Caesar in the online film database
• Asterix - victory over Caesar atRotten Tomatoes(English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Asterix - Victory over Caesar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ 8.15 p.m. SAT 1 . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 23, 1996
3. ↑ Asterix - Victory over Caesar . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1995 ( online ).