Baldwin, the dry swimmer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Baldwin, the dry swimmer |
| Original title | Le Petit Baigneur |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Dhéry |
| script |
Claude Clèment Robert Dhéry |
| production |
Robert Dorfmann Maurice Jacquin Bertrand Javal |
| music | Gérard Calvi |
| camera | Jean Tournier |
| cut | Albert Jurgenson |
| occupation | |
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Baldwin the dry swimmer , also known as Der kleine Sausewind (Original title: Le Petit Baigneur ), is a French comedy film from 1968 with Louis de Funès and Robert Dhéry . The latter also directed. The film opened in German cinemas on May 22, 1968.
action
The employees of a small boatyard for sports yachts tremble at Louis-Phillippe Fourchaume: The company boss is an irascible and choleric contemporary who often verbally abuses his employees. André Castagnier is a somewhat clumsy designer at the company. As its newest design, a marine boat called Indestructible , leak suggests by a powerful thrown bottle of champagne in the champagne christening, he gets Fourchaumes anger felt and is dismissed.
When it turned out a little later that Castagnier had won an important award with the design of the sailing boat Der kleine Wasservogel / Der kleine Sausewind (French: “Le Petit Baigneur”), good advice is expensive. Because Fourchaume needs the sailor and Castagnier to get a lucrative major order. The choleric has to crawl to the cross in order to win back his chief designer. Together with his wife Marie-Beatrice, Fourchaume goes to see Castagnier, who lives on a stretch of coast with his almost exclusively red-haired family. Since Fourchaumes' quick temperament is known to Castagnier's clan, he is received very reserved and sometimes hostile. In addition, the Italian boat builder Cacciaperotti gets involved in the negotiations, who would also like to sign Castagnier.
As a result, the two industrialists try with all their might to pull Castagnier to their respective side, which sometimes ends in utter chaos. Finally, however, Fourchaume manages to jump over his shadow, reconcile himself with Castagnier and bring him back to the company. From now on, Fourchaume and Castagnier will run the shipyard as equal partners. When the ship is christened again, another ship capsizes - apparently as a result of Castagnier's influence. Fourchaume suffers another attack of anger and chases after Castagnier, who is fleeing with his family. Everything starts all over again.
Remarks
- Not only Castagnier actor and director Robert Dhéry worked in front of and behind the camera in the production. Gérard Calvi, who was responsible for the film music, plays a small role as the leader of a band.
- The West German version of the film was cut by about five minutes. Two plot lines are missing: on the one hand, the scene with de Funès and the driverless tractor is a little longer in the original, on the other hand, a sequence is missing in which Fourchaume finds various pictures of himself defaced by Castagnier. He pulls himself together in the face of the cuddling course and also acts as if he were playing ecstatically on an imaginary violin. The GDR version is complete.
- From Baldwin Trockenschwimmer three different German dubbed versions were made: two in Germany and one in the GDR. The film is one of the few exceptions in which the GDR dubbing ( Willi Narloch de Funes spoke here ) was also used in West Germany for marketing in the cinema and TV, because not only the original version with Gerd Martienzen from 1969 was lost, but also at times also the new version from 1974. For a long time the latter existed under the title Der kleine Sausewind only in a Super 8 version. De Funès' standard speaker Gerd Martienzen can be heard here. This version is very rare and therefore coveted among collectors. A large part of this version has since appeared again and can be heard on the Kinowelt DVD.
- Fourchaume drives a Jaguar E in the film . After filming was over, Funès bought such a car privately.
- In this film this time it is not Claude Gensac who plays his wife, as is often the case, but Andrea Parisy.
Reviews
"An amusing Louis de Funès film, which, however, cannot keep up the pace set at the beginning."
“Funny film that can't quite keep its initial joke and has a few lengths, but in which you can have fun with a bit of lightheartedness. For friends of French ore Louis de Funès. "
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. 188.
Web links
- The Little Bather in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Balduin, the dry swimmer in the online film database
- Comparison of the cut versions German version - French DVD by Balduin, the dry swimmer at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Baldwin, the dry swimmer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Balduin, the dry swimmer in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Baldwin, the dry swimmer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Protestant Film Observer, Review No. 261/1968.