The gendarme of Saint Tropez
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| German title | The gendarme of Saint Tropez |
| Original title | Le Gendarme de St. Tropez |
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| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Jean Girault |
| script |
Richard Balducci , Jean Girault , Jacques Vilfrid |
| production | René Pignères |
| music | Raymond Lefèvre |
| camera | Marc Fossard |
| cut | Jean Michel Gautier |
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The Gendarme of Saint Tropez is a French comedy film starring Louis de Funès from 1964 and the first of a six-part series of films about the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot . Directed by Jean Girault . The film opened in German cinemas on May 27, 1966.
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Ludovic Cruchot, a gendarme in a small mountain village, is promoted and transferred to Saint-Tropez . With a lot of zeal and even more choleric he goes there against administrative offenses and injustice. Above all, he is targeting nudists , viewed as undesirable and shameless , who indulge their passion on a lonely beach. After several unsuccessful attempts, he succeeds with a stroke of genius in arresting a whole group of them and driving them to the gendarmerie like a flock of sheep.
Cruchot is the single father of his teenage daughter Nicole. In Saint Tropez, to the horror of her father, she developed from provincial mouse to cheeky teenager . She seeks connection and makes new, but snooty friends. To please them, she withholds the fact that her father is a police officer and instead states that he is the American multibillionaire Archibald Ferguson, owner of the luxury yacht OLNICO, which is in the harbor .
However, this yacht happens to be the headquarters of a gang of gangsters who have just stolen a valuable painting by Rembrandt van Rijn from a museum. There are now numerous confusions and entanglements, at the end of which Cruchot can arrest the gang of thieves.
Reviews
“[...] moderate script that wins through the grotesque comedy of Funès' body language. (Rating: 2½ out of 4 possible stars = above average) "
"Entertainment tailored to Louis de Funès with a corresponding amount of gossip."
“On the whole, a fun color film about the holiday season in the famous Saint Tropez. The main actor is worth seeing for comedy lovers. "
Remarks
Saint Tropez on the Côte d'Azur , already a well-known attraction for artists and people from high society , got an enormous boost in popularity through this film series.
The piece of music used in the film La Marche des Gendarmes was covered by the band Edguy in 2001 and released as an EP in France .
Louis de Funès offered the actress Liselotte Pulver the role of the film wife Cruchots - which was apparently still planned in the run-up to the shooting. But powder declined the engagement for health reasons - she was afraid of suffering from hay fever during the filming scheduled for June. Pulver later regretted this decision very much.
Gendarme film series
The film is part of a six-part series of films about the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. The titles are:
- 1964: The gendarme of Saint Tropez
- 1965: The Broadway gendarme
- 1968: Baldwin, the grouchy marriage
- 1970: Baldwin, the horror of Saint-Tropez
- 1979: Louis' eerie encounter with the aliens
- 1982: Louis and his crazy policewomen
Web links
- The Troops of St. Tropez in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 294.
- ↑ The gendarme of Saint Tropez. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 119/1965.
- ↑ Liselotte powder in ... if you still laugh . Ullstein, Frankfurt / Main-Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-548-22918-2 , p. 253.