Radishes from below

Movie
German title	Radishes from below
Original title	The pissing par la racine
Country of production	France Italy
original language	French
Publishing year	1964
length	77 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Georges Lautner
script	Clarence Weff Albert Kantof Georges Lautner
music	Georges Delerue
camera	Maurice Fellous
cut	Michelle David
occupation
Louis de Funès : Jacques Michel Serrault : Jérôme Mireille Darc : Rockie La Braise Maurice Biraud : Jo Arengeot Francis Blanche : Absalon Raymond Meunier : La Douane Hubert Deschamps Gianni Musy : Riton ("French Chips") Barbara Brand Paola Barbara Hélène Laffly Simone Landry Darry Cowl Guy Grosso

Radishes from below (original title: Des pissenlits par la racine ) is a French-Italian feature film from 1963 with Louis de Funès , Michel Serrault and Mireille Darc in the leading roles. The script, which director Georges Lautner wrote together with Clarence Weff and Albert Kantof , is based on a novel by Clarence Weff. In France, the film first hit cinemas on May 6, 1964. In the Federal Republic of Germany, where it was also shown under the title Sarg oder Geige , it ran from April 22, 1966.

action

For five years the bass violinist Jérôme played his solo every evening in a successful piece on stage. After the last day of performance at a farewell party, when he wanted to give it the best again, instead of the instrument, he found a corpse in the double bass case, the crook “Pommes-Chips”, which Jérôme's slightly crazy cousin Jacques stabbed in self-defense. At first the dead man causes great difficulties, but then Jérôme's uncle, a curious museum taxidermist, quickly turns him into a skeleton for the medical faculty. Unfortunately, the joy is short-lived, because in the jacket of “Pommes-Chips” was the betting slip of a friend who brought huge odds. While the gang of thugs suddenly makes hypocritical visits to museums, Jérôme has long since taken the betting slip. And while the desperate overhaul turns to counterfeiting tricks and ends up in the kitten, the musician collects the money and drives away with a light girl.

Reviews

“Turbulent Louis de Funès comedy about a corpse in a double bass case and a huge win in the horse pool. An abundance of often black humor gags. "

- Lexicon of international film

“A lot of fuss about an initially obstructive and then much sought-after corpse. A macabre topic, grotesquely and burlesque planned, but not mastered in this sense despite the design advantages, and with an ethically frivolous conclusion. For adults, without recommendation. "

- Protestant film observer

“A black comedy with a top-class cast: Director Georges Lautner is a specialist in funny and at the same time exciting cinema entertainment and proved this splendidly with his mimes Mireille Darc, chaos comedian Louis de Funès and Michel Serrault. Because here the theater life, the police apparatus, the clergy and the world of criminals are caricatured in a cocky and imaginative way. "

- Prisma TV guide

"Predicate 'valuable'."

- Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden

Web links

• Radishes from below in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures of the film with short review on cinema.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 157/1966, pp. 303–304.
2. ↑ Lexicon of international films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3046.
3. ↑ Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 157/1966, pp. 303–304.
4. ↑ See prisma.de
5. ↑ Lexicon of international films , rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3046.