Babette goes to war
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Babette goes to war |
| Original title | Babette s'en va-t-en guerre |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Christian-Jaque |
| script |
Jean Ferry , Jacques Emmanuel |
| production | Raoul J. Lévy |
| music | Gilbert Bécaud |
| camera | Armand Thirard |
| occupation | |
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Babette goes to war (original title: Babette s'en va-t-en guerre ) is a French feature film by director Christian-Jaque from 1959. The screenplay is based on a story by Raoul J. Lévy and Gérard Oury . The exterior shots were made in the RAF Abingdon Parachute School in London and the interior shots in the studios in Joinville (Haute-Marne) . The film was first released in France on September 18, 1959, and on October 2 in the Federal Republic of Germany that same year.
action
Spring 1940: A large part of the north of France is occupied by the German Wehrmacht . The soldiers advance almost daily. The remnants of the British and French troops tried to reach the coast before the arrival of the Germans, where a few ships were waiting to pick up the refugees and bring them to Great Britain. There General de Gaulle has assembled a free French army and is just waiting for a suitable opportunity to continue the fight against the Germans.
A large part of the civilian population has joined the fleeing soldiers, including the young waitress Babette. During the crossing to England, she met Lieutenant Gérard de Crécy-Lozère. It's love at first sight for both of them. Gérard manages to get the girl a job as a cleaning assistant at the headquarters . So both have the opportunity to see each other often.
When the British secret service Major Fitzpatrick becomes aware of Babette, he notices that she looks like the former girlfriend of the German General von Arenberg. The British secret service has information that von Arenberg is currently in Paris and has been commissioned to prepare for the German invasion of Great Britain. That's why he now wants to smuggle Babette into the German headquarters. There she is supposed to ensnare the general with her feminine charms and then kidnap him to England. This would mean that the Germans would have to postpone their invasion , giving Great Britain more time to develop its defense.
In a crash course, the Frenchwoman is trained to be an agent and parachuted over France together with her lover. At first, both paths diverge here. While Gérard sets out on foot for Paris, Babette slips into a Wehrmacht suit. On the trip to the French capital, she made the acquaintance of SS-Sturmbannführer Heinrich, who took her to the Paris Gestapo headquarters, which was headed by Obersturmführer Schulz. Babette's resemblance to Arenberg's former girlfriend is also evident to him. But because the Gestapo suspects him of being involved in a conspiracy against Hitler , the French woman has now received the second time - this time from the other side - to seduce the general and to spy on his plans. Soon she is staying in the elegant Hotel Continental, where the German army leaders have also moved into their quarters.
It doesn't take long before Arenberg runs into the girl. Because their appearance reminds him of his ex-girlfriend, the two quickly get closer. When Babette introduced the general to the palace of the Duke de Crézy, her lover's father, and played the daughter of an elegant family there, he was so impressed that he invited the girl to supper in a remote hotel. Babette's radio message to London is intercepted by the German eavesdropping service, whereupon the Obersturmführer sees his suspicions confirmed. Without further ado, he instructs Babette, of whose true identity he still has no idea, to convict Arenberg for good and to hand him over to the Gestapo. However, by the time she realizes what is really going on here, it is already too late. Gérard, Babette and Arenberg are on a plane that is taking them to London.
criticism
"Very exaggerated, but quite amusing rubbish of the espionage box and an ironic reckoning of France with Hitler's Germany," judged the lexicon of international films . The evangelical film observer said: “Unfortunately, the serious material was turned into superficial slapstick. Therefore only for adults. "
synchronization
The German dubbed version was produced by Aura Film Synchron GmbH Berlin. Conrad von Molo took care of the dialogue and the dubbing . The GDR premiere took place in its own synchronization on April 19, 1963 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin . It was first broadcast on GDR television on January 27, 1973 in the first program.
| role | actor | Voice actor BRD | Voice actor DDR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babette | Brigitte Bardot | Margot Leonard | Angelica Domröse |
| Gérard de Crecy | Jacques Charrier | Eckart Dux | Günther Haack |
| Major Fitzpatrick | Ronald Howard | Georg Kassube | Otto Mellies |
| Lieutenant Heinrich | Michael Cramer | Michael Cramer | |
| General von Arenberg | Hannes Messemer | Hannes Messemer | Horst Drinda |
| Obersturmführer Schulz | Francis Blanche | Werner Peters | Peter Kiwitt |
| Captain Darcy | Yves Vincent | Axel Monjé | |
| Duke de Crecy-Lozère | Pierre Bertin | Herbert Weissbach | |
| duchess | Viviane Gosset | Ursula War | |
| Captain Gustave Frémond | Noël Roquevert | Alfred Balthoff |
source
- Program for the film: Das Neue Filmprogramm , Verlag Das Neue Filmprogramm Mannheim, Weinheimer Straße 58–60 (without order number)
Web links
- Babette goes to war in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ allusion to Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre
- ^ Lexicon of International Films . rororo-Taschenbuch Nr. 6322 (1988), p. 249.
- ↑ Babette goes to war. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Protestant film observer . Evangelical Press Association Munich, Critique No. 656/1959.
- ↑ Babette goes to war. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 11, 2018 .