Baldwin, the night ghost
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German title | Baldwin, the night ghost |
Original title | Le Tatoué |
Country of production | France , Italy |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 89 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Denys de La Patellière |
script | Alphonse Boudard |
production |
Maurice Jacquin Robert Dorfmann |
music | Georges Garvarentz |
camera | Sacha Vierny |
cut | Claude Durand |
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Baldwin, the night ghost (original title: Le Tatoué ) is a French - Italian comedy film from 1968. Directed by Denys de La Patellière , Louis de Funès plays an art dealer whose greed for more and more fortunes is driven out by a war veteran . The cinema premiere in Germany was on March 21, 1969; Alternative titles are Ein Poisonzwerg makes Rabatz and Oscar doesn’t let it go .
action
Balduin Mezeray (in the original "Félicien Mezeray") is an art dealer and visits one of his artists who has an old man as a model. Just as he is about to get dressed again, Mezeray discovers a “Modigliani” on the back of the elderly man , a work of art that the master tattooed on his skin at a victory celebration in 1919 after the First World War.
Mezeray senses big business and urges the war veteran Legrain to sell him the picture. He hesitates at first, but then lets himself into the business after Baldwin has promised him to spruce up his weekend house. The latter turns out to be a dilapidated castle and the war veteran a real count. Still sensing big business, Balduin puts up with many a quirk of the eccentric aristocrat.
Over time, Baldwin notices that the strange gentleman is showing him things that have hitherto passed him by, and the old count discovers thoroughly honest and amiable traits in the apparently greedy art dealer Balduin.
background
Olivier de Funès , son of Louis de Funès, reported in a 1997 interview that the two main actors in this film respected each other as excellent actors, but privately they did not have a very strong opinion of one another.
Reviews
“The director uses the confusion of this exposition for strange situation comedy ; both main actors complement each other splendidly and carry the film, which is not always dense. "
“Turbulent continuation of the slapstick series with Louis de Funès; undemanding entertaining. "
“With Louis de Funes and Jean Gabin, two extremes collide: the quiet, purely mumbling Gabin and the always hectic Funes. But this is exactly where the joke lies in this otherwise rather thin set of clothes. "
“Louis de Funès and Jean Gabin's comedic fortune has a negligently pieced together script at their disposal. Friends of the two stars will still get their money's worth in places. "
Web links
- Baldwin, the Nachtgespenst in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Baldwin, the night ghost in the online film database
- Baldwin, the night ghost in the synchronous database
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Baldwin, the night ghost . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 40 321 V).
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 70.
- ↑ Baldwin, the night ghost. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. moviemaster.de
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 128/1969