Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages

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Movie
German title Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages
Original title La soupe aux choux
Logo La Soupe aux choux (titre sur l'affiche) .png
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1981
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jean Girault
script Louis de Funès ,
Jean Halain
production Christian Fechner
music Raymond Lefèvre
camera Edmond Richard
cut Michel Lewin
occupation
synchronization

Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages (original title: La soupe aux choux - The cabbage soup ) is a French comedy film with Louis de Funès from 1981. It is based on the novel La soupe aux choux by René Fallet .

action

Farmer Claude Ratinier and his hunchbacked neighbor Francis Chérasse can no longer expect much from life. Essentially, the two pass the time on their farm away from the hamlet of Les Gourdiflots , happily drinking wine and Pernod and eating home-made cabbage soup . One day this, in connection with the Pernod, caused such violent flatulence in both of them that the noises were absorbed in space. That night an alien lands with his spaceship in the courtyard and stands in front of Claude's door. He initially believes in an illusion as a result of his alcohol consumption, but the visitor is real and very interested in the cabbage soup. After the alien has been able to take a sample to his fellow species, he keeps coming back to the two old people to make cabbage soup for the inhabitants of his small planet Oxo .

He is so grateful that he has granted old Claude a wish: he brings his wife Francine back to life, who died ten years ago. However, the alien is based on a picture in which Francine is about 20 years old. The first joy is quickly followed by disillusionment when Claude realizes that he is no longer up to the beautiful young woman due to the considerable age difference.

Francine confesses to Claude that she was bored with a hunchbacked neighbor, Francis, while Claude was a prisoner of war. Claude confronts his neighbor Francis, but they make up again.

Francine decides to enjoy her second life. After buying new clothes in the city and meeting a young man, she decides to go to Paris with him to find work and become happy. She says goodbye to Claude, who lets her go with a heavy heart.

As a thank you, the alien multiplies a Louis d'or coin from Claude until a small box is full. Claude later gives this fortune to Francine, who now works as a waitress, before his trip to the planet "Oxo" to ensure a carefree life.

In addition, the mayor of Gourdiflot urges Claude to demolish his farm for a building project. To solve this problem, the alien makes a suggestion: He could take the old farm with him to the planet Oxo so that the two old people can continue to live there in peace and quiet with their cat. Because on the oxygen planet you live to be 200 years old without any health problems.

After old buildings around the homestead have been torn down, new buildings and an amusement park built and the idyllic calm is over, the film ends with the extraterrestrial appearing with a huge spaceship, completely digging out the homestead of Claude and the "hunchback" with claws and the three and the cat leave this earth in a good mood.

background

The old town hall of Champeaux became a gendarmerie for the film
  • The film is set in the commune of Jaligny-sur-Besbre in the Allier département in Auvergne , where some scenes were also shot. Most of the scenes were filmed in and around Champeaux , ( Département Seine-et-Marne ). The filming locations to be found there at that time are the Hotel de France , gendarmerie, post office, butcher's shop, bakery / clothing store and market square. The location of the main plot, called Les Gourdiflots in the film , really exists. It is about four kilometers southeast of Champeaux located hamlet Les Trayants . In 1981 the buildings had exactly the morbid charm they were looking for, as they had long been uninhabited, but their deterioration is now so advanced that you can only partially recognize scenes from the film. According to www.defunes.org, the scenes of the cottages of Claude & Francis were filmed in a field near the town of Brie-Comte-Robert , south of the municipality of Grisy-Suisnes . However, “location pilgrims” are unlucky here, as Claude and Francis' homestead , including the fountain, were wooden backdrops that were built there anyway and that were dismantled after the shooting. Only an enormously large concrete block partially overgrown by bushes, at that time a bracket for the camera crane , still bears witness to the filming.
  • In the French version of the film there is an eight-minute scene in which Francis Chérasse tries to hang himself. This scene was always cut out in the German version. In another edition, the scene was included as bonus material. It was only in a new DVD edition by Kinowelt from January 2011 that the entire scene was integrated into the film for the first time and with German subtitles. The film was shortened by a further three minutes for the broadcast on KiKA .
  • The German cinema premiere was on March 26, 1982.
  • The accordion piece that "the hunchback" Francis plays shortly before the landing of the spaceship is the waltz La Valse brune .
  • The grandfather clock in Claude's house shows around five minutes to five o'clock throughout the film.

German dubbed version

actor speaker role
Louis de Funès Peter Schiff Claude Ratinier
Jean Carmet Herbert Stass Francis Cherasse
Jacques Villeret Joachim Tennstedt extraterrestrial
Christine Dejoux Andrea Heuer Francine
Marco Perrin Wolfgang Völz mayor
Henri Génès Heinz Theo branding police officer
Claude Gensac Margot Rothweiler Amélie Poulangeard

Remarks:

  1. ↑ a b c without a name

Reviews

"Because of a few mistakes, the comedy of the film hardly stays within the framework of the other De Funès films."

- Lexicon of international film

"(...) SF slapstick, which gives some insight into the peculiarities of French provincial life."

- Lexicon "Films on TV"

"An old work by Brausekopf de Funès - with plenty of wild gags!"

- TV movie

"Intergalactic Laughing Muscle Attack."

- TV Movie

DVD publications

  • Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages . Ufa 2004
  • Louis de Funès DVD Collection Box No. 1 . Cinema World 2004
  • Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages . Universum Film 2004, Kinowelt 2011

Film music

The film music was composed by Raymond Lefèvre . The soundtrack (OST) for the film, released on CD by Riviera LM Recording System in 1981, comprises 2 tracks. The soundtrack for the film, released on CD by Playtime on January 2, 1998, consists of 4 tracks.

Title List of the Soundtrack (OST) by Riviera LM Recording System (1981)

  1. La Soupe aux choux (Générique)
  2. Oxo la terre

Playtime Soundtrack Track List (1998)

  1. La soupe aux choux (Générique) - 1:30
  2. Oxo la terre - 2:50
  3. Solitude - 2:05
  4. La soupe aux choux (Final) - 2:47

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.defunes.org/
  2. ↑ http://www.defunes.org/
  3. ↑ a b Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ DVD Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages , VCL 1999. End credits: Thème accordéon “La Valse brune”. Editions Paul Beuscher (at 1:29:39.)
  5. ↑ synchronkartei.de accessed on January 25, 2016
  6. ^ Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon "Films on TV" (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 516 (Rating: 2½ of 4 possible stars = above average)
  7. ↑ Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages on tvspielfilm.de
  8. ↑ La Soupe aux choux (Bande originale du film) (OST) (1981) In: senscritique.com , accessed on November 12, 2018