Breast or leg
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breast or leg |
| Original title | L'aile ou la cuisse |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Zidi |
| script | Claude Zidi Michel Fabre |
| production | Christian Fechner |
| music | Vladimir Cosma |
| camera |
Claude Renoir Vladimir Ivanov |
| cut |
Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
| occupation | |
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Breast or Leg is a French comedy film from 1976 . Directed by Claude Zidi 's Louis de Funes seen in the lead role. The film is a satire and parody of the industrialization of food production as well as the microcosm of (especially French) gourmet cuisine .
action
The restaurant critic Charles Duchemin (an entanglement of words alluding to Dumont and the Michelin Guide ) is as much respected as feared among French chefs . With his annually published guide on French gastronomy and the associated awarding of stars, he can help restaurant operators to become wealthy and famous, but also drive them to ruin. In order not to be recognized, he always uses new panels.
Duchemins major task is the assessment of the French cuisine and the exposure of his opponent, the industry - tycoons Jacques Tricatel . He is the owner of a large chain of motorway service stations , fast food restaurants and fast food shops. There he sells the synthetically produced food from his factory. Tricatel is a typical parvenu : a proletarian, financially risen through ruthlessness, but without manners and constantly fighting for social recognition.
Tricatel continues to grow in power and is forcing small, family-run catering establishments across France. Duchemin declares war on the industrialist and goes to one last big secret valuation campaign over the country. He is accompanied by his son Gérard , who is soon to inherit him professionally. However, Gérard leads a secret double life , because in addition to his work as a gourmet critic, he also works as a clown , his true calling, in his own traveling circus , whose financial survival would not be possible without his first income. This circus secretly accompanies the Duchemins in order to enable Gérard to perform during his business trip.
During the stay in a rural restaurant, events come thick and fast: Tricatel's henchman can not only expose Duchemin, who is traveling incognito, but also Gérard's circus engagement. When father and son are confronted with each other, there is a break between the two. Charles Duchemin is then forced at gunpoint by the operator of the inn to eat large quantities of spoiled food and industrial food from Tricatel, as he once stole stars and thus ruined him. Littered with pustules in disgust, the gourmet loses his sense of taste ( ageusia ) and is taken to a hospital by Gérard.
Unfortunately, shortly before that, Duchemin challenged his rival Tricatel to a television duel (in Philippe Bouvard's real show at the time ). When cornered, Duchemin has only one solution: he reconciles with Gérard and breaks into Tricatels factory with him to collect evidence of his synthetically produced food. In doing so, they narrowly escape an assassination attempt commissioned by Tricatel.
In the television program, Charles then announces his resignation and, in Gérard, his successor as editor of the restaurant guide. With the support of his father, Gérard passes a taste test required by Tricatel. Then both can not only prove that Tricatels food is inedible, but also uncover the murder attempts he arranged.
Tricatel is done for, and thanks to the Duchemins, French cuisine seems saved. The film ends with a banquet on the occasion of Duchemin's admission to the Académie française . He finds his pocket watch in a pie that he had lost in the "bakery" in Tricatels factory.
synchronization
Rainer Brandt was responsible for the dialogue book and the dialogue direction. Louis de Funès is dubbed by his regular speaker Gerd Martienzen .
| actor | role | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Amadou | Narrator (beginning of the film) | Rainer Brandt |
| Yves Alfonso | fake plumber | |
| Max Montavon | Mr. Modefroy | |
| Louis de Funès | Charles Duchemin | Gerd Martienzen |
| Coluche | Gérard Duchemin | Peter Kirchberger |
| Julien Guiomar | Jacques Tricatel | Friedrich Schuetter |
| Claude Gensac | Maguerite # 1 | |
| Ann Zacharias | Maguerite # 2 | Heidi Schaffrath |
| Daniel Langlet | Lambert | Reiner Brönneke |
| Martin Lamotte | Roland | |
| Philippe Bouvard | Horst Stark | |
| Jean Martin | Doctor in hospital | Rolf Mamero |
| Marcel Dalio | cutter | |
| Raymond Bussières | Henri | |
| Georges Chamarat | Le doyen des académiciens | Franz-Josef Steffens |
| Albert Michel | Morand | Jochen Sehrndt |
| Vittorio Caprioli | Vittorio | Gottfried Kramer |
| Gérard Boucaron | Ficelle, (fat) friend of Gérard | Jan Fedder |
Varia
- In 1974 Louis de Funès suffered two heart attacks and retired from the film business. Breast or Club was the first film with which he returned to the cinema after a long health break.
- Initially, the film was only to be advertised on cinema posters using de Funès' name. At his request, the text was changed to “de Funès & Coluche”.
- The name Duchemin is a reference to Dumont and Michelin , both travel guides with restaurant recommendations.
- The name Tricatel is an allusion to the entrepreneur Jacques Borel , who from 1968 operated fast-food restaurants on the French motorways called Restoroute , which the French called in connection with malbouffe (junk food).
- The role of Gérard Duchemin was originally supposed to be played by Pierre Richard . When he declined because he could not identify with the role, Zidi chose Coluche.
criticism
"Louis de Funès film, which, thanks to Michel Coluche's quiet, subtle comedy, doesn't get stuck in mere slapstick and gains a few plus points in the direction of comedy."
“This hilarious comedy by Claude Zidi not only offers slapstick, but also 'snappy' about the food culture. Louis de Funès shines as a choleric gourmet and restaurant critic, who fights against plastic food and fights a great battle against the scandalous failures of the food industry. "
“[…] Claude Zidi uses all of this to go to court with the ' savoir-vivre ' mentality of his compatriots and to bury the fairy tale of the best of all kitchens. On the side, he imports the slapstick genre into French films, garnishes it with de Funès' choleric-hysterical grimacing in a comedy that can easily keep up with the temperament of its main actor, and in addition to perfect timing also sprinkles a lot of satirical salt in the soup of all Gault- Millau believers. An all-time classic and by the way, TV junk food for boring Sundays. "
“[…] Sure, there is no such thing as a continuity in this classic thigh thumper from 1976, the camera is shaky, even laypeople find the cut lousy, and the tragic 70s synchronization does the rest. But there are numbers that are simply indestructible. A television discussion round with the telling title 'All blows are allowed' is a must-see as well as a slapstick routine with three people, two hotel rooms, three identical suitcases and an almost perfect timing. And otherwise there is a wealth of absurd situations that the gourmet critic de Funès has to go through [...]. "
Awards
The film won the Golden Screen in 1978 .
Home theater
As early as the late 1970s, many years before VHS and DVD , there was a first release for private home cinema. Marketing Film from Bochum sold an edited version with many highlights of the film in the Super 8 format , divided into three rolls of approx. 110 m each in color and with German magnetic sound at a price of 149 D-Marks per roll. Another advantage of this early home cinema version is the original cinema synchronization by Rainer Brandt. This publication is today a very popular collector's item among the remaining Super 8 fiction film collectors and achieves comparatively high prices at relevant Internet auctions or on collectors' fairs.
Web links
- A beef in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Breast or leg in the online film database
- Breast or club in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chest or leg. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ L'Aile ou la cuisse (1976) on devildead.com
- ↑ Chest or leg. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Review of the breast or the club in the magazine prisma-online
- ↑ Breast or leg on allesfilm.com ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Review of Breast or Keule in the magazine Schnitt
- ↑ Chest or leg. June 26, 2014, accessed March 6, 2017 (private website).