Baldwin, the terror of Saint-Tropez

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Movie
German title Baldwin, the terror of Saint-Tropez
Original title Le gendarme en stroll
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1970
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jean Girault
script Richard Balducci ,
Jean Girault,
Jacques Vilfrid
production Renè Pigneres ,
Gérard Beytout
music Raymond Lefèvre
camera Pierre Montazel
cut Armand Psenny
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Balduin, the wedding grouch

Successor  →
Louis' uncanny encounter with the aliens

Baldwin, the horror of Saint-Tropez , performance title in the GDR The Gendarme strolls , is a French comedy film from 1970 with Louis de Funès . The film was first shown in France on October 28, 1970. In Germany it was released on April 10, 1971. At the end of the 1970s, the Berlin film distributor JUGENDFILM took over the exploitation rights in the Federal Republic of Germany. For the re-performance it was renamed Louis on a secret mission , corresponding to the German title of the great gendarme success Louis' uncanny encounter with the aliens .

action

Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot and his colleagues are taking early retirement from the ministry due to insufficient motivation and are being replaced by younger men. After six months of boredom, Cruchot receives a visit from his former boss Gerber and his wife. A little later, Merlot, another ex-colleague of Ludovic, joins them and informs them that Fougasse, also a member of the brigade, has lost his memory. Together with the remaining two ex-gendarmes, they kidnap the mentally confused Fougasse from a home in which he has been since the beginning of his amnesia. The six gendarmes secretly put on their uniforms again to help revive Fougasse's memory, with their successors constantly getting in their way.

After a long period of turbulence, Fougasse confesses that he only faked his lost memory because he liked the home so much. After a little fight at the beginning, the six gendarmes reconcile. The peace only lasts until they realize that a group of nudists has stolen their car that contains their civilian clothes. After they have found a car with eye-catching flower-power paint including matching costumes, they wander through the country disguised as flower children and end up in a hippie meeting, where they are confronted with drugs. Meanwhile, the new, younger line-up of the gendarmerie informs the wives of Gerber and Cruchot that the ex-gendarmes have been caught first with nudists and later with hippies, whereupon the two decide to pay their husbands back.

The brigade has now escaped the hippies and is now fighting its way back to St. Tropez on foot . Cruchot and Gerber keep an eye out with the telescope, and accidentally discover their wives with two other men, but convince themselves that they are wrong. The gang ultimately decides to surrender to their successors. Suddenly, however, Sister Clotilde, who the troops already knew from previous adventures, appears and takes the supposed gendarmes with her to her monastery. There she informed them that she had become matron, ran a holiday colony and that five of her protégés had disappeared. Since she knows nothing of their retirement, she asks the alleged police officers to visit the five and bring them back to the colony. But they are in the process of building a missile with dangerous explosives that threatens to blow up the entire area. The gendarmes fail to prevent the launch of the “bomb”, which rushes across Saint-Tropez and finally lands at an event where the women of Cruchot and Gerber are accompanied by two men. Angry about this alleged adultery, Cruchot tries to blow up himself and everyone else with the help of the bomb, but fails because it is destroyed by the violence of the gendarme. Cruchot and Gerber ultimately face their wives, and all early retirees are reinstated. There is also a parade.

Remarks

  • In the German dubbed version, Ludovic Cruchot is also called "Balduin", which is also reflected in the German title.
  • In the scene in which Josepha asks her husband to get into the car, she calls him with his French name “Ludovic” and not with “Balduin”. This actually synchronized setting was lost in the copies received and had to be taken from the original French version for the DVD.
  • The supposed bomb in the tip of the rocket is a miniature replica of the Soviet Sputnik 1 .

Gendarme film series

The film is part of a six-part series of films about the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. The titles are:

criticism

"Turbulent Louis de Funès comedy with some pretty and funny ideas."

- film service

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baldwin, the terror of Saint-Tropez. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used