The pubic louse
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The pubic louse |
| Original title | L'Emmerdeur |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Édouard Molinaro |
| script | Francis Veber |
| production |
Alexandre Mnouchkine Georges Dancigers Robert Amon |
| music |
Jacques Brel François Rauber |
| camera | Raoul Coutard |
| cut |
Monique Isnardon Robert Isnardon |
| occupation | |
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The Filzlaus (original title: L'Emmerdeur in German: Die Nervensäge) is a French-Italian comedy film by Édouard Molinaro with Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel . A professional killer involuntarily becomes a lifesaver for a suicidal husband. The script of the film is based on the play Le contrat , written by Francis Veber . The piece premiered in Paris in September 1970 and was a great public success when it was re-recorded in 2005. In the GDR the film was called Die Klette .
action
Louis Randoni is in bed one morning. When the caretaker tries to drive Randoni's wrongly parked car to the side, a car bomb explodes and the man is killed. Randoni wants to make a statement of enormous political explosiveness in a trial in Montpellier soon . After the attempted assassination he is under increased police protection. Now the professional killer Ralph Milan is hired by the unknown backers . After eliminating the first attacker, he quartered himself in a hotel in Montpellier opposite the heavily secured Palace of Justice. From there he wants to do the job with a sniper rifle. Milan's preparations, however, are hampered by the suicide attempt of his roommate, the suicidal shirt salesman Pignon, who wanted to hang himself up in the bathroom. His wife has left him and is now living with the psychiatrist Fuchs in Montpellier. In order to avoid a stir and to keep the police away, the rather taciturn and grumpy loner Milan decides to take care of the desperate and non-stop chattering Pignon. The grateful Pignon shows his affection for the killer, who is not very receptive to it. There is a role reversal; Within a few hectic hours, the professional persecutor becomes a persecuted person. After Pignon was rejected by his ex-wife at a first meeting, he again had a depressive episode and suddenly stood on the outside ledge of the hotel, which was noticed by the crowd in front of the Palace of Justice. When he was rescued, Milan himself was in mortal danger and fell on a balcony on the lower floor. After returning to the room, he is completely apathetic. Fuchs turns up at the hotel, takes Milan for Pignon and gives him a sedative injection. Pignon is there and does not reveal himself in order to find out more about his wife from the rival. In an exertion of strength, the dazed Milan goes to Fuchs' clinic with Pignon and forces him to give him an antidote so that he is able to do his job. The agent and the killer ultimately fail to accomplish their respective “tasks”. In favor of his “life saver”, Pignon even renounces the wife he has won back, who was the trigger for his suicide plan. After Pignon's strong and Fuchs' weak appearances in the clinic, she now considers the doctor and no longer Pignon to be a failure. Milan's planned assassination attempt fails. Wounded in the hail of bullets from the police, the killer tries to escape from the hotel with Pignon. Both remain their newfound, strange relationship - right into prison.
premiere
The cinema premiere in France was on September 20, 1973. In Germany, the film was released for the first time on February 22, 1974.
In France, over 120,000 visitors had already seen it in the first week of its performance, and after a month it had already been over a million. This commercial success also continued abroad.
Trivia
- Director Edouard Molinaro said: "The film describes a little how the swank penetrated film noir ".
- Molinaro makes a brief appearance as a café owner / bartender. He is holding a Jacques Brel record in his hands.
- The German dubbing by Rainer Brandt is sometimes referred to as "flippant" and "too brash" (Zurhorst / Just). At least in places it is on the verge of being silly.
- In 1981 Hollywood tried to build on the great success of the original. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had star director Billy Wilder make a remake under the title Buddy Buddy , the roles of Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel played Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon .
- With Richard Berry and Patrick Timsit in the leading roles, another remake followed in 2008 under the title Der Killer und die Nervensäge , with the author Francis Veber himself directing.
- In 2012 there was an Indian remake called Bamboo .
- The Italian-French film IL ROMPIBALLE… ROMPE ANCORA / Fantasia chez les ploucs with Lino Ventura from 1971 was later marketed in Germany under the title Die Filzlaus returns . In terms of content, however, there is no connection to the film Die Filzlaus .
Reviews
“Partly amusing comedy that is sometimes close to the slapstick; played excellently. "
“Edouard Molinaro shot quality clothes that do without a background, but impress with their unerring wit. The death professional as a permanent lifesaver - a grotesque situation that really only becomes full-length with such leading actors. "
“The extremely successful comedy starts deliberately slowly, and then steadily increases in speed and dynamism until the finale. Lino Ventura, otherwise not necessarily at home in comedy, is very funny as an annoyed professional killer. Jacques Brel as a tearful philistine with a suicidal desire is the perfect complement. "
"Francis Veber wrote the script for" Die Filzlaus "based on his own play. Perhaps the joke unfolds better on the stage than on the screen, because the plot and actions sometimes seem badly constructed in the cinematic implementation. And what of all things may have moved the Belgian chansonnier Jacques Brel to take on this part ... "
literature
- Meinolf Zurhorst, Lothar Just: Lino Ventura. His films - his life. Heyne, Munich 1984 (Heyne-Buch; 32/65), ISBN 3-453-86065-9
Web links
- The crab louse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The pubic louse in the online film database
- The felt louse in the German synchronous file
- The felt louse in the All Movie Guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the felt louse . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 46 294 DVD).
- ↑ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-03-15/news-interviews/31196446_1_director-jagdish-rajpurohit-film-intelligent-comedy
- ↑ The felt louse. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ prisma.de
- ↑ moviemaster.de