Baldwin, the holiday horror
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Baldwin, the holiday horror |
| Original title | Les grandes vacances |
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| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Girault |
| script | Jean Girault Jacques Vilfrid |
| production |
Raymond Danon Maurice Jacquin |
| music | Raymond Lefèvre |
| camera | Marcel Grignon |
| cut | Jean-Michel Gautier |
| occupation | |
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Baldwin, the holiday fright , also known as The Shower Head with the Sausebbein (original title: Les Grandes vacances , translated The big holidays , here summer holidays ) is a French - Italian comedy film by Jean Girault from 1967 .
action
Balduin Bosquier runs a renowned boarding school for boys near Versailles . In complete contrast to his ambitious younger son Gérard, of all people, his older son Philippe got a five in English at the end of the school year - a disgrace that the ambitious school principal Bosquier cannot put up with. But the despotic patriarch quickly has a solution: Philippe is supposed to spend the holidays in the house of the Scottish whiskey producer MacFarrell and improve his English, while MacFarrell's daughter Shirley is supposed to improve her French skills with the Bosquiers. Philippe doesn't like this idea at all, however, because he had planned a river cruise on the Seine towards Le Havre with a number of school friends for the holidays . The entire company is now in danger of failing, firmly planned as a navigator on the already rented sailing boat. To save the trip, the friends decide to pass off their schoolmate Stephane Michonnet as Philippe and send him to the MacFarrells in Scotland.
Initially, the deception worked: Despite some reluctance, Michonnet took Philippe's place on the plane to Edinburgh , and shortly afterwards MacFarrell's daughter Shirley arrived at the Bosquiers boarding school. The lively girl, however, is not at all to the taste of the conservative school principal: Not only is the 18-year-old turning the heads of the holiday students in her short minis , Shirley also came with her own mini (car) , which she used from early to midnight is out late and withdraws from the strict regime of Bosquier on the pretext of visiting museums and sights. Bosquier Sr. Suspicions that the girl - contrary to what is claimed - is not concerned with the cultural heritage of France, and Shirley puts his younger son Gérard at her side as a guardian. However, she soon had enough of Bosquier's mania for control, ran away and ran into Philippe and his friends' sailing boat by chance. She falls in love with the boy who introduces himself as Stephane Michonnet and joins the sailing community on her journey.
Father Bosquier, however, initially remains hidden from Shirley's escape, as after a phone call from MacFarrell he believes his son Philippe has screwed up something in Scotland and immediately rushes to Edinburgh to restore the family's reputation. Once there, the bad behavior turns out to be a simple stomach upset ( in the French original constructed around a play on words of mal [= bad] and malade [= sick] ), but Father Bosquier also learns of the deception. Fearing that the family's reputation could be damaged if this hoax is exposed, he instructs Michonnet to stay with the MacFarrells and continue to pretend to be Philippe until the holidays are over.
Back in France, Bosquier learns that Shirley has run away and is on a boat on the Seine with the real Philippe. The school principal rushes after the unsuspecting couple and gets entangled in all sorts of chaotic situations before he can finally catch them both. Without first having found out that her boyfriend Stephane is actually Philippe Bosquier, Shirley becomes von Bosquier sen. sent back to her father in Scotland. Here she meets the supposed son of the hated school principal and decides to take revenge on him with a small prank: She lures Michonnet into her room, gives him knockout drops and arranges that her father catch the boy in bed with her . Outraged, Father MacFarrell summons Bosquier to Scotland to pick Philippe up and bring him back to France. Father Bosquier then travels to Scotland again - this time in tow with the right Philippe, who is supposed to finally lift the dizziness and restore the reputation of the Bosquier family.
Before the two fathers can resolve the situation, Shirley learns the truth and is overjoyed to be reunited with her lover. In order not to be able to be separated in the future, the couple decides to flee to Gretna Green , where according to an old tradition couples are allowed to marry at short notice and without the consent of their parents. Despite a turbulent chase in which Bosquier and MacFarrell hijack a small plane and land on the roof of a moving coach, Philippe and Shirley finally manage to get married and reconcile the two divided families.
background
The film was shot in two French studios near Paris as well as in outdoor locations in Versailles and Le Havre . The game scenes in "Scotland" were made in the area around the Puy de Dôme near Clermont-Ferrand .
The scenes in the Paris Olympia are studio replicas. The impression that Gérard and Shirley are actually in the famous Music Hall is created by fading in a still photo of the exterior facade.
In the French original version, Louis de Funès is called Charles and not Balduin by first name.
The film opened in German cinemas on October 11, 1968.
synchronization
Karlheinz Brunnemann was responsible for the German dubbing on behalf of the Berlin Union Film GmbH & Co. Studio KG.
| role | Actress | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Baldwin (Charles) Bosquier | Louis de Funès | Gerd Martienzen |
| Mr. MacFarrell | Ferdy Mayne | Ferdy Mayne |
| Mrs. MacFarrell | Jean St. Clair | Tina Eilers |
| Shirley MacFarrell | Martine Kelly | Traudel Haas |
| Philippe Bosquier | François Leccia | Thomas Danneberg |
| Gérald Bosquier | Olivier de Funès | |
| Isabelle Bosquier | Claude Gensac | Gisela Trowe |
| Stephane Michonett | Maurice Risch | Arne Elsholtz |
| Croizac | Jacques Dynam | |
| Coal transport driver | Heinz Petruo | |
| blonde female drivers | Françoise Girault | Marianne Lutz |
| Silvia Dionisio | Uta Hallant | |
| car seller | Mario David | Edgar Ott |
| elderly homeowner | Paul Faivre | Wolfgang Amerbacher |
| Barjac | René Bouloc | Randolf Kronberg |
| Gendarme in the harbor pub | Pervical Russel | Gerd Holtenau |
| Landlady in the harbor bar | Dominique Davray | Gisela Reissmann |
| Jenkins | Colin Drake | Klaus Miedel |
| Christian | Jean-Pierre Bertrand | Claus Jurichs |
| Claude | Jacques Dublin | Norbert Langer |
| Michel | Dominique Maurin | Uwe Paulsen |
| Morizot | Max Montavon | Gerd Duwner |
| countess | Denise Provence | Beate Hasenau |
| Son of the countess | Karlheinz Brunnemann | |
| professor | Carlo Nell | |
| Eduard, the gardener | Jean Droze |
Reviews
The magazine TV direkt wrote that Louis de Funès was "laughable in the best sense as always". For the lexicon of international film , Baldwin, the holiday fright, was “[un] nterhaltsamer slumber”.
The Protestant Film Observer said: “Turbulent French-Italian bestseller color film grotesques about star comedian Louis de Funès. Unfortunately, not everything turned out equally well: many things seem downright silly, the one-sided focus on the amorous is out of tune and the wooden Scottish partner of the lively little clown is absolutely no opponent for him. "
literature
- Maurice Bessy, Raymond Chirat, André Bernard: Histoire du cinéma français. Encyclopédie des Films 1966–1970. (with photos for each film) Éditions Pygmalion, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-85704-379-1 , p. 184.
Web links
- Les grandes vacances in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Balduin, the holiday shock in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 - French DVD by Balduin, the holiday shock at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Baldwin, the holiday horror . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 39 719 V).
- ↑ Filming locations of Balduin, der Ferienschreck on imdb.com, accessed on August 31, 2014.
- ↑ Balduin, the holiday horror in the German synchronous file
- ^ TV direct , 14/2007, p. 93.
- ↑ Baldwin, the holiday horror. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Film-Beobachter , Critique No. 482/1968, p. 488.