Barbouzes' recipes for murder
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Barbouzes' recipes for murder |
| Original title | Les Barbouzes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georges Lautner |
| script | Michel Audiard |
| production |
Robert Sussfeld Jean Mottet |
| music | Michel Magne |
| camera | Maurice Fellous |
| cut | Michelle David |
| occupation | |
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Murder recipes of the Barbouzes (Original title: Les Barbouzes ) is a 1964 French agent film with Lino Ventura in the lead role.
action
In Paris, the French counter-espionage is made aware of the death of the international arms dealer Shah in an expensive brothel. In order to avoid repercussions and to use this opportunity, the top agent Francis Lagneau is assigned to bring Shah's body back to his Bavarian castle. There he hands it over to the young and attractive widow Amaranthe, to whom he poses as Ludo, the dead man's cousin. Amaranthe is now the legal owner of the valuable patents for the nuclear weapons Shah acquired. The wrong cousin Ludo now has the task of acquiring the patents for France, but the other great powers are also after nuclear weapons. A fake Russian stepbrother named Boris Wassiljew, a fake German psychoanalyst named Hans Müller and a fake Italian priest named Eusebio Cafarelli meet at the castle.
After trying unsuccessfully to get each other out of the way, including a bomb in the bathroom cistern and a scorpion in bed, the four agents first agree a truce and instead focus on courting the widow. They face two new challenges: One of them is O'Brien, a bold American who regularly invades the castle and is thrown into the moat by the agents. The other is in the form of Chinese spies who infiltrate the castle by killing the servants one by one and taking their places.
After the agents defeat the Chinese in a fight, Francis spends the night with Amaranthe and flees with her the next morning to Lisbon, where the patents are in a vault. Amaranthe sees the escape as a honeymoon with her next husband and agrees to return to France with Francis and the patents. But the three betrayed spies and O'Brien haven't given up yet, which leads to further fighting. In the end, Francis commits bigamy in a patriotic act by marrying Amaranthe to secure the patents for France.
criticism
- The lexicon of international films found: “Rich in corpses, but nevertheless happy competition among international secret agents. Entertaining parody of the spy film alienated to the point of complete absurdity. "
- Prisma said: "In this turbulent comedy, Lautner never misses an opportunity to make fun of the typical national quirks of Germans, Russians, Americans, Chinese and of course his compatriots."
- The film magazine Cinema judged: "Wacky, happy agent parody".
- The Federal Agency for Civic Education found: “Les Barbouzes / Barbouzes murder recipes from 1964 is a wonderful example of the trend towards an ironic view of the agent film genre. The title is a slang term for 'the secret agents' and alludes to the false beards that they so often stick on. Les Barbouzes is playful and full of visual and verbal wit, at times goofy and over-the-top; Carnival-style fun overflowing with humorous impaled clichés. "
- The Münchner Merkur wrote: "What once began deadly serious, which then became a winking adventure through James Bond, has now become a consistently exaggerated grotesque".
- The conclusion of the Berliner Morgenpost : “Where the glorious James Bond spends his life tricking his opponents out of the same, the way to a parody of secret agent activities is not far.” France's “answer to America's blockbuster No. 1” makes fun of it about all the "political, amorous and technical tribulations" of the secret agents ".
Web links
- The Barbouzes murder recipes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barbouzes' murder recipes in the online film database
- Murder recipes of the Barbouzes in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the Barbouzes' murder recipes . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2006 (PDF; test number: 33 533 DVD / UMD).
- ↑ The Barbouzes' recipes for murder. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Prisma.de: Barbouzes murder recipes
- ↑ Cinema.de: Barbouzes' recipes for murder
- ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education: The Barbouzes' recipes for murder
- ^ Münchner Merkur, February 18, 1965
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, May 4, 1965