Congratulations ... sat down again
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Congratulations ... sat down again |
| Original title | Les sous-doués |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Zidi |
| script | Claude Zidi Michel Fabre Didier Kaminka |
| production | Claude Zidi |
| music | Bob Brault |
| camera | Paul Bonis |
| cut | Nicole Saunier |
| occupation | |
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Congratulations ... a French comedy film by Claude Zidi from 1980 has got stuck again .
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The school year of the private school Cours Louis VIX in Versailles ends with a catastrophic result for the headmistress Lucie Jumaucourt: All the students in the final class failed. Instead of mourning, however, the students are enthusiastic, as failing the baccalaureate is a tradition with some: Baptiste Lavalle, known as "Bebel", for example, failed the exam for the fourth time. In the new school year, too, there was no improvement in school performance or in attitudes towards Bac. However, Lucie Jumaucourt has decided that all students will have their bac in their pockets by the end of the school year. She replaces the attractive sports teacher Marilyn with the giant Bruce, who also serves as a threat to misconduct in class. All classrooms are monitored by video and even smoking in the toilet room is made more difficult by smoke detectors. Nevertheless, thanks to modern technology, the students repeatedly manage to get their own head around: video surveillance becomes a farce through playing their own films, chemistry lessons become a very foggy matter through the incorrect dosage of chemicals, and math lessons through seemingly mute answers become a challenge for them Deaf math teacher Léon. Instead of going to school, the pupils prefer to devote themselves to their love affairs, so Bebel tries in vain to relax Julien's girlfriend Caroline and ends up in bed with Jeanne. Soon after, she tells her classmates that she is pregnant.
The chaos in class is dampened by a new student: Gaston Pourquier is already retired and wants to fulfill a lifelong dream with Bac. However, Lucie Jumaucourt's preliminary examination for Bac leaves him in despair, as even the best in the class only manages a little more than a quarter of the possible points. Nevertheless, she is satisfied in front of the class and introduces the students to her new teacher the next day: a learning machine from the USA that gives punches for every wrong answer, but rewards correct answers with candy. Although the students initially submit to the machine, they then work on new ways to prevent learning. After a first bomb alarm, which annoyed the inspector, who was already annoyed by the students, the police did not fall for another alarm. Without further ado, Bebel and his cronies make a real little bomb. The plans become known to real terrorists who are building an identical large bomb. By various coincidences the terrorist bomb ends up in the school and the small one in the embassy in Abou-Yamen. When the police refuse to believe the students' story about the real bomb, an explosion ensues that completely devastates the school building. In court, the students assert that they are not criminals, and the judge wants to believe them on one condition: if everyone passes the bac, the matter is forgotten. If they fail, they have to serve their sentences. The inspector, who exults, can act as the overseer of the exams. Through excessive cheating in unusual variations, all students pass both the written and the oral exam in the end, with Jeanne even giving birth to her daughter during the written exam. The Commissioner is outraged by the injustice in the world.
Ten years later, the former students meet again. Everyone has coped with life in different ways. In front of the meeting point, the inspector regulates the traffic half-insane. Bebel brings him to their meeting and everyone plays one last trick on him: When he tries to blow out the candles on a birthday cake, the cake explodes and leaves him covered with cream.
production
Congratulations ... once again the film was shot in Paris and Versailles. Jacques Voizot created the film structures . The film hit French cinemas on April 30, 1980 and was a box-office success with nearly four million viewers. It also ran in German cinemas on June 18, 1981.
In 1982, a sequel to the film came to the cinemas with Glückwunsch II - Die Lümmel make vacation .
criticism
The film-dienst called congratulations ... once again sitting down, a “lively trampoline comedy with lots of malicious jokes and some sparkling gags”, in which “over long stretches [...] there is only a mild climate of clothes”.
Web links
- Congratulations ... again remained seated in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Congratulations ... once again stuck in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ See allocine.fr
- ↑ Congratulations ... sat down again. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .