The clumsy sixth sense
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The clumsy with the sixth sense La course à l'échalote |
| Country of production |
France Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Zidi |
| script |
Michel Fabre Jean-Luc Voulfow Claude Zidi |
| production | Christian Fechner |
| music | Vladimir Cosma |
| camera | Henri Decaë |
| cut |
Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
| occupation | |
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The Clumsy Sixth Sense is a Franco-German comedy film by Claude Zidi from 1975. Alternative titles of the film are The Long Blonde and the Little Black and Me Laust the Monkey .
action
The Alcazar travesty club is sold to a company that already operates other Parisian theaters. However, buyer De Rovère has not yet determined a new operator, but has a blank power of attorney drawn up in which only the name of the new owner has to be entered, who then becomes the owner of all the company's theaters. He wants to grant this power of attorney at his own discretion and stores it on a Thursday in his locker in the bank where employee Pierre Vidal works. He's a keen worker, but often distracted by the hairdresser Janet, who works across from the bank and has had a relationship with him for two years. Janet is bored with her relationship with Pierre and so she plans to break up. Pierre, on the other hand, tends to be very jealous and observes her every step from his study with binoculars.
The bank director wants to go away over the weekend and appoints Pierre as his deputy on Thursday. During the night, Pierre got into some awkward situations, whereupon he was arrested several times and so inspector Brunet noticed. He remembers that a year ago some lockers in Pierre's Bank were robbed, and the perpetrator was never caught. However, it must have been a bank clerk. However, Pierre cannot give any clues. On Friday a certain Madame Fontaine wants to go to her locker. However, it is a disguised travesty artist of the Alcazar who takes De Rovère's suitcase with the blank power of attorney. Pierre discovers the theft but cannot stop the thief. His coat remains in which Pierre discovers a ticket for a trip to Brighton . He succeeds in preventing De Rovère from collecting the papers on Friday and putting him off until Monday. He goes to the train station, with the suspicious Janet following him. Commissioner Brunet, who received a strange call from Pierre, also follows him. A great spectacle awaits them at the station, as the travesty artists go on tour to Brighton and all ticket holders are allowed to ride. Pierre discovers the thieves and sees where they are hiding the suitcase. He manages to take the suitcase, but is followed by the travesty artists. Before they catch him, he throws the suitcase into a pillar that is part of the stage set for the show in Brighton. In the end, he and Janet, who is in turn pursued by Brunet, escape into a dinghy, from which they fall into the water. A fishing cutter brings them ashore.
They both hitchhike to Brighton. They go to the theater independently of one another, but are caught by the travesty artists and taken to an island. Here they are locked in a lonely villa and Pierre reveals that the suitcase is in one of the pillars, which, however, have already been set up as part of the set. The men decide not to collect the suitcase until the next day after the performance has ended. They go and set fire to the villa. Pierre and Janet survive in the bathtub of the house and return to Brighton, where they sneak behind the scenes during the performance. First they try to secretly lift the pillars in order to find the suitcase, but they disturb the performance. During a scene in which a muscle man is chopping up a tree trunk, Pierre also starts chopping up a pillar. Because the hacking noises are not synchronized, the scene is the first time the audience is amused. Pierre finally arrives on stage by chance and, animated by the audience, begins to chop up all the columns. The actors of the Alcazar try in a variety of ways to prevent him from doing so, whereby all actions always pass as intended entertainment. In the end, Pierre discovers the suitcase with Janet's support and they both flee. Brunet, who has meanwhile also arrived at the theater, finally finds the bank director behind the scenes to his surprise, who is the lover of a travesty artist of the Alcazar and who is also behind the thefts of the previous year.
Pierre finds the blank entries in the suitcase, but does not take the opportunity to become the owner of the theater. At the bank he will be dismissed without notice by the president general on Monday after his return. Although the director turned out to be the culprit, Pierre had caused so much dust with his action that the bank's reputation suffered much more. Without further ado, Pierre signs the blank transfer on site. Now he is courted by the employees, he has become a rich man after all. De Rovère is left behind.
production
The clumsy sixth sense was filmed in Paris and Brighton, among others. The costumes were created by Yvette Bonnay , the film structures are by Michel de Broin . The film opened in French cinemas on October 8, 1975, where it was seen by almost 3 million viewers, and was also released in German cinemas on December 19, 1975. First performance in the GDR was on December 26, 1984 on DFF 1 . In June 2005 the film was released on DVD.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Pierre Vidal | Pierre Richard | Harry Wüstenhagen |
| Janet | Jane Birkin | Marianne Lutz |
| Commissioner Brunet | Michel Aumont | Edgar Ott |
| Marc | Marc Doelsnitz | Randolf Kronberg |
| Gunther | Amadeus August | Thomas Danneberg |
| André | André Bézu | Joachim Pukass |
| Bank director | Jean Martin | Friedrich Schoenfelder |
| De Rovère | Claude Dauphin | Klaus Miedel |
| Franz | Luis Rego | Arne Elsholtz |
criticism
For the film service , Der Clumsy with the sixth sense was “non-stop slapstick with Pierre Richard”, but at the same time “more comical than the average of the genre.” “Turbulent chaos: funny to annoying,” summarized Cinema .
Web links
- The dub with the sixth sense in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See La course à l'échalote on jpbox-office.com
- ↑ The clumsy with the sixth sense. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The clumsy with the sixth sense. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de