The big eat

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Movie
German title The big eat
Original title La grande bouffe
Country of production France , Italy
original language French
Publishing year 1973
length 130 minutes
Age rating FSK 16 (previously 18)
Rod
Director Marco Ferreri
script Rafael Azcona
Francis Blanche
production Vincent Malle
Jean-Pierre Rassam
music Philippe Sarde
camera Mario Vulpiani
cut Claudine Merlin
Gina Pignier
occupation

The big food (original title: La Grande Bouffe ) is a French - Italian feature film from 1973. Directed by Marco Ferreri , the screenplay was written by Rafael Azcona and Francis Blanche. The main roles were played by Marcello Mastroianni , Ugo Tognazzi , Michel Piccoli , Philippe Noiret and Andréa Ferréol .

action

Four friends around 50 meet on a weekend in late autumn in order to indulge in delicately prepared, but primarily excessive, food and sexual debauchery, which should ultimately lead to an almost solemn, collective suicide (the motive: the tiredness of the four of them) . The court director Philippe, who is making his large, uninhabited town house in a Paris suburb available for the binge, is enthusiastic about baroque body shapes. The television producer Michel prefers ballet exercises , which he dismisses as narcissism . Flight captain Marcello, Michel's best friend, seeks his luck with young women who have often succumbed to sex-obsessed people without resistance. Restaurant owner Ugo has an extensive collection of knives and is happy to share Don Vito Corleone imitations that are worth seeing .

With the consent of the others, Marcello appoints three prostitutes. The teacher Andrea joins the already expanded society by chance. The woman from a simple middle-class background quickly feels at home in the company of influential and successful men. Philippe and Andrea announce their engagement, but she still sleeps with the others. Initially, the three prostitutes are still taken with this decadent society. But after a while they feel disgusted about the excessive eating, whereupon one of the women even vomits, and they gradually leave the property.

Michel, who was evidently brought up strictly in his childhood and had to suppress any flatulence , suffers severely from his digestion. The friends encourage him to let go and let his intestinal winds run free. To everyone's horror, the clogged toilet on the property explodes when Marcello uses it, flooding parts of the bathroom with excrement .

Marcello is disappointed in having sex with Andrea and angrily announces that he is leaving. He wants to start the Bugatti Type 37 A , which he has enthusiastically repaired, in the now snow-covered garden of the property , but then freezes to death in the freezing night while sitting behind the steering wheel. His body is taken to the in-house cold store the next day. A few hours later, Michel also dies after trying to drown out his violent gas with the loud final chords of a piano piece. He sinks down on the balcony, sullied by his excrement. His corpse is placed next to Marcello's and can be seen through the windows of the refrigerator in subsequent scenes.

Ugo then prepares a large cake from different pies , which nobody but himself wants to eat. So he announces that he wants to eat it alone. Soon he can only do this with the help of Philippe lying on the kitchen table. Finally, he asks Andrea to satisfy him sexually in order to die in orgasm .

The next morning Philippe is sitting in the garden. Andrea brings him a pudding in the form of luscious female breasts. While Philippe is consuming the pudding, new meat is delivered, which Andrea has distributed in the garden. She has apparently internalized the decadence of friends. Philippe eventually dies in her arms.

synchronization

Rainer Brandt was responsible for the dialogue book and dialogue direction on behalf of Rainer Brandt Filmproduktions GmbH.

role Actress Voice actor
Marcello Marcello Mastroianni Rainer Brandt
Ugo Ugo Tognazzi Harald Juhnke
Michel Michel Piccoli Helmo Kindermann
Philippe Philippe Noiret Rolf Schult
Andréa Andréa Ferréol Evamaria Miner
Anne Florence Giorgetti Beate Hasenau
Hector Henri Piccoli Herbert Weissbach
Aunt Nicole Michèle Alexandre Tina Eilers
supplier Maurice Dorléac Wolfgang Lukschy

Reviews

The film was received as very shocking in the 1970s. In addition to the scandalous plot, it was also the rough sex scenes, the explicitly depicted "eating scenes" and the overly audible digestive noises and flatulence of the protagonists that completely contradicted the previous viewing and hearing habits of the 1960s. In Ireland the film was banned from showing.

Roger Ebert wrote in 1973 in the Chicago Sun-Times , the film possesses no philosophical depth ( philosophical depth ). He described the film as " decadent ", "full of self-disgust" ( self-loathing ), " cynical " and "often obscene " ( frequently obscene ).

The big eating was praised by another critic for "grandiose, well thought-out picture structures" and described as "extremely interesting". He compared the film with the 1975 film The 120 Days of Sodom , which showed feces in an even more extreme way.

Awards

The film won the golden screen . He also won the FIPRESCI Prize of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d' Or.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Big Eating . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2005 (PDF; test number: 45 776 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ IMDb Certification
  3. ↑ Original review in SPIEGEL 1973 , accessed on April 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
  5. ^ Film review by Michael Dlugosch