Baldwin, the night ghost

Movie
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
Rod
Director	Denys de La Patellière
script	Alphonse Boudard
production	Maurice Jacquin Robert Dorfmann
music	Georges Garvarentz
camera	Sacha Vierny
cut	Claude Durand
occupation
Jean Gabin : Legrain, Count Enguerand Louis de Funès : Balduin Mézeray Paul Mercey : Maurice Pellot Dominique Davray : Madame Mézeray Yves Barsacq : Post Office Clerk Jean-Pierre Darras : Lucien Joe Warfield : Larsen Donald J. von Kurtz : Smith Lyne Chardonnet : Valérie Mézeray Pierre Guéant : Richard Mézeray Michel Tureau : the television director Patrick Préjean : first detective Pierre Maguelon : second detective Henri Virlojeux : Dubois Micheline Luccioni : the landlady

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. "

- Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz

“Turbulent continuation of the slapstick series with Louis de Funès; undemanding entertaining. "

- Lexicon of international film

“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. "

- Frank Ehrlacher, moviemaster.de

“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. "

- Protestant film observer

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

1. ^ Certificate of release for Baldwin, the night ghost . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 40 321 V).
2. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier, Berndt Schulz: Lexicon "Films on TV" . (Extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 70.
3. ↑ Baldwin, the night ghost. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
4. ↑ cf. moviemaster.de
5. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 128/1969