Give the monkey sugar

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Movie
German title Give the monkey sugar
Original title Innamorato pazzo
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1981
length 102 minutes
Rod
Director Castellano
Pipolo
script Castellano & Pipolo
production Mario Cecchi Gori
Vittorio Cecchi Gori
music Bruno Zambrini
camera Danilo Desideri
cut Antonio Siciliano
occupation

Give the monkey sugar (Original title: Innamorato pazzo ) is an Italian comedy film from 1981 with Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti in the leading roles. It was first seen in German-speaking cinemas on May 19, 1982.

action

The Roman bus driver Barnaba is popular with passengers for his quirky and entertaining cheerfulness. During a break from work, the beautiful young Cristina, who stole away from her parents' house, gets on the bus and asks him to take a tour of the city. He falls in love with her immediately, offers her a very unusual tour, shoots her a stuffed monkey at a stall and invites her to dinner in the evening. During the visit and afterwards, he reveals to her that he would like to marry her. Cristina is hesitant, but is interested in him. During the meal, the wine goes to her head so much that she sleeps at Barnaba. He offers her his bed and sleeps in a dresser himself. The bodyguards hired by Cristina's father bring her back to the palace the next morning.

Barnaba is sad and instructs his bus driver colleagues to look out for Cristina, which remains unsuccessful. Through a television broadcast, Barnaba discovers that Cristina is the daughter of Prince Gustavo, the ruler of a dwarf state called Saint-Toulipe. He goes to visit her father. He asks for her hand, but is turned away and alleged that he might have an attempt at blackmail with photos in mind. Cristina's father accuses him of being unsuitable for his daughter and that he has 10 applicants on each hand. In addition, Gustavo is in need of money and is looking for a rich bridegroom for her in Rome.

Barnaba serenades musicians in front of her palace. Cristina really enjoyed the day with Barnaba and she fell in love with him too. After a few obstacles, she invites him to a state banquet the next day, where he convinces with his unconventional manner and amusing misunderstandings and wins everyone's sympathy through anecdotes from the bus driver's life. In the euphoria, he makes her a marriage proposal and already sets a wedding date. But the surprised Cristina refuses. Nevertheless, she remains Barnaba weighed. Nevertheless, marriage is still out of the question. Barnaba has no chance without sufficient funds. Her father is still planning to marry a potent armament financier.

On the way to a dance event, Cristina is picked up by Barnaba. He brings her to his apartment and wants to convince her of himself. Cristina sees herself as a victim of a kidnapping, wants to be brought back first, but then lets herself be involved in a conversation. To be allowed to leave, she offers a kiss and finally succumbs to his offensive nature. Although he opens the door for her, she stays with him. She suggests that he marry in a small church to establish facts and avoid marrying a stranger, but they are again tracked down and separated by the bodyguards.

The next day, Barnaba addressed the Roman population with an appeal for donations on television and newspapers. This brings together the 50 billion lire that the prince needs to consent to the marriage.

additional

  • The plot is a parody of A Heart and a Crown , in which a young princess flees protocol, spends time in Rome, and falls in love with an ordinary person.
  • After the success of the film (it grossed 2.5 billion lire in Italy alone ), Celentano's next film (1982) was Grand Hotel Excelsior with Who Stole the Monkey's Sugar? marketed.
  • The film was shot in Como .
  • Music: Adriano Celentano - Uh… Uh… Label: Clan Celentano - CLN 20324
  • In one scene of the film, Celentano interprets the appearance aria of Figaro Largo al faktotum from Gioachino Rossini's opera Il barbiere di seviglia / ( The Barber of Seville ) with a rewording as Cotto Cottissimo .

criticism

Films.de describes the film, which has now been successful for almost 40 years, as one of the great comedy classics by cult stars Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti .

At the time it was made, however, the Catholic Lexicon of International Films considered it unsuccessful and said it was a harmless comedy entertainment whose intention to tell a modern fairy tale for a naive youthful audience fails because of the amateurish, unimaginative staging.

At the time, however, Italian critics praised the interplay between Muti, who shines with pure beauty, and Celentano's mimic talents, but saw above all the romantic theme of A Heart and a Crown , the eccentric character from Welcome Mr. Chance and the humor à la Achille Campanile little independent.

Give the monkey sugar "(1981) was another amusing romantic comedy with the Italian dream couple of the 1980s: Adriano Celentano and Ornella Muti. Nonchalant, with a lot of humor and a good one, after the big box office success of" The Tamed Shrewd "(1980) In this film, too, Celentano focuses on the simple life, love and lightness.

German version

Occupation according to the German dubbing files

role actor Voice actor
Barnaba Cecchini Adriano Celentano Michael Brennicke
Princess Cristina Ornella Muti Eva Kinsky
King Gustavo IV Adolfo Celi Herbert Weicker
Queen Bettina Milla Sannoner Marianne Wischmann
consul Enzo Garinei Eberhard Mondry
officer Dino Cassio
Carpet dealer Tiberio Murgia
mayor Corrado Olmi
Waiter Gerry Bruno
Head waiter Franco Diogene
Coremann Tonio von der Meden
Housekeeper Iris Giulia Scuitilli Astrid Boner
Gatekeeper Roman Forum Norbert Gastell
Russian general Harry Kalenberg
Gas station attendant Michael Gahr
Fortune teller Monika John

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film Vol. 5, A / L , Rome, Gremese 2007. pp. 315/316
  2. ^ Oggi , Volume 37, Mondadori, 1981
  3. La festa. Duecento anni con Figaro. February 20, 2016, accessed July 11, 2020 (Italian).
  4. Give the monkey sugar. In: www.filme.de. 2009, accessed on July 11, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Film Lexicon - Give the monkey sugar , on zweiausendeins.de
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  7. ^ Giovanni Grazzini , in: Cinema '81' .
  8. Give the monkey sugar. RBB, 2020, accessed July 11, 2020 .
  9. German synchronous index | Movies | Give the monkey sugar. Retrieved July 11, 2020 .