The great race of Belleville
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The great race of Belleville |
| Original title | Les Triplettes de Belleville |
| Country of production | France , Belgium , Canada , Great Britain |
| original language | French , Portuguese |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 77 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sylvain Chomet |
| script | Sylvain Chomet |
| production |
Didier Brunner Viviane Vanfleteren |
| music | Benoît Charest |
| cut |
Dominique Brune Chantal Colibert Brunner Dominique Lefever |
The great race of Belleville (original title: Les Triplettes de Belleville and Triplets of Belleville ) is a cartoon by the French director Sylvain Chomet from 2003. The film is almost without words. In 2004 he was nominated for an Oscar in the categories of animated films and film music .
action
The little champion lives in a small house with his grandmother Madame Souza and the neurotic dog Bruno, who likes to bark train trains. Champion is enthusiastic about cycling and receives a children's bike from his grandmother, with which he trains diligently. As a young man, he only had one goal: to take part in the Tour de France . Grandmother Souza supports him as much as she can as a trainer, supervisor and mechanic. You manage to participate in the tour, but Champion is not up to the challenge; At the end of the field he forms a group with two other participants . The French mafia in the American city of Belleville picks up the three with a fake broom wagon and kidnaps them by ship. In Belleville - a mixture of New York and San Francisco - they are supposed to compete as cycling slaves on a machine, whereby the audience can bet amounts of money on them.
Madame Souza takes on the chase on a pedal boat with dog Bruno and ends up penniless in Belleville. She meets the eccentric triplet sisters Les Triplettes de Belleville , aged show stars whose heyday is over. The three get by with small engagements and live exclusively on frogs, which they fish out of a pond with hand grenades. They take Souza into their apartment and their show group. The head of the French mafia is present at an appearance. Bruno smells the smell of Champion on him and draws Souza 's attention. The next day the four ladies sneak into the show restaurant where the cyclists are being held. Armed with a frying pan, a hand grenade and a wrench, they manage to free the prisoners, who drive away with the machine and the four women. A wild chase ensues through the city, which the mafia killers lose because of their unsuitable cars. Madame Souza faces the head of the French mafia alone on the great Belleville bridge and brings him down.
background
The German-language cinema premiere took place on April 8, 2004. There are two DVD versions of the film on the market in Germany. The first was released on Concorde on October 21, 2004, the second on November 19, 2005 on EuroVideo. The German-language television premiere was on July 4, 2007 on ARD.
In Germany, the film was rated for ages six and over. According to the criticism of the world , however, the film is more suitable for an adult than a young audience due to its humor and its sometimes dark moods. The Motion Picture Association of America recommends that the Triplets of Belleville be 13 and over (PG-13).
synchronization
| role | French speaker |
|---|---|
| Les triplettes | Béatrice Bonifassi |
| Les triplettes | Lina Boudreault |
| Les triplettes | Michèle Caucheteux |
| Les triplettes | Suzy Falk |
| Les triplettes | Nicole Shirer |
| Les triplettes | Germaine Charest |
| Les triplettes | Helen Wambolt |
| Les triplettes | Evelyn Snow |
| Les triplettes | Ron Séguin |
| Les triplettes | Mari-Lou Gauthier |
| champion | Michel Robin |
| champion | Noel Baye |
| Madame Souza | Monica Viegas |
| Madame Souza | Graziella de Villa |
| Sports commentator | Dirk Denoyelle |
| General de Gaulle | Jean-Claude Donda |
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was “an excellent animated film in terms of both form and content, which plays virtuously with set pieces from neorealism, visual artists such as Dix and Grosz and the minimalist slapstick comedy Jacques Tatis , and thereby finds its own, captivating narrative style. The fascinating absurd comedy opens up, like a silent film, without any problems despite the French language. "
Awards
There were two nominations at the 2004 Academy Awards . The film was nominated for Best Animated Film, Benoît Charest and Sylvain Chomet were nominated for Best Song.
In 2003 the film received a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film. In 2004, Benoit Charest was awarded a César for film music . Sylvain Chomet was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in 2004 in the category of Best Foreign Language Film . In 2004 the Los Angeles Film Critics Association presented two LAFCA Awards for Best Animation and Best Score . Paul Cadieux received the 2005 Genie Award in the Best Picture category.
Web links
- The Triplets of Belleville in Internet Movie Database (English) Triplets of Belleville
- The big race of Belleville at Rotten Tomatoes (English) Triplets of Belleville
Individual evidence
- ^ Age rating for The Great Race of Belleville . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Josef Engels: A dog's life. No, two! In: Die Welt , April 8, 2004
- ↑ The Great Race of Belleville. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .