Sugar, sugar!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Sugar, sugar! |
| Original title | Le sucre |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Rouffio |
| script |
Georges Conchon Jacques Rouffio |
| production |
Lise Fayolle Giorgio Silvagni |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | René Mathelin |
| cut | Geneviève Winding |
| occupation | |
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Sugar, sugar! is a French film satire directed by Jacques Rouffio from 1978.
action
Sugar King Grezillo recognizes the excess in sugar production and stops it. Sugar is running out and the shops are being bought empty. On the stock market , the sugar stock price begins to rise. Stockbroker Raoul-Renaud Homecourt therefore advises his customers to invest in sugar stocks. Early retirement Adrien Courtois is uncertain. The tax inspector has just retired and is managing his wife's fortune, who inherited 237 million francs due to five sudden deaths in the family. Raoul is his distant cousin's financial advisor and pricks up when Adrien reports on his fortune. Adrien doesn't know his way around the stock market and initially only buys one lot of sugar, i.e. 50 tons. He is surprised and delighted when Raoul informs him after a short time that the sugar prices on the stock exchange have risen further and that he has therefore made a profit of 2,500 francs. Adrien now continues to invest in sugar stocks, buys a total of twelve items and persuades Raoul to accept a blank order from him so that he does not always have to travel to Paris to buy a new one.
During a luxurious trip to America with his wife, Adrien learns that suddenly a sugar glut has set in. Grezillo has resumed sugar sales and the price on the stock exchange, which had risen from 2,000 francs per ton to 8,000 francs, is falling rapidly. Adrien hides this development from his wife, but cannot sell his shares. Raoul, who has been fired by his boss, teams up with Adrien to get his money back and thus win against the system. Adrien promises him a 30 percent commission in return. Adrien has a total of 16 items of sugar and a potential loss of 330 million francs. Raoul can sell two items and have his boss pay for four more items because they were acquired with prohibited blank orders. Since the banks have become careless during the sugar boom, four of them are now facing bankruptcy, which Grezillo did not plan for. It is decided to close the stock market, which means a haircut for Adrien: Where there is no market, no debts to the market can be settled.
While Adrien and Raoul are vacationing in Adrien's new villa with pool, debt collector Pergamont appears on the property. The market was opened again after a short time and Adrien is supposed to pay his debts. It is becoming clear that the market wants to inflict the costs of the sugar boom on small speculators in particular, as the big ones have long since brought their profits to Switzerland . While Adrien becomes discouraged and even tries to commit suicide, Raoul begins to pursue Pergamont, take pictures with prostitutes and finally blackmail them. In the end, with Adrien's help, he managed to get Pergamont to sign a document according to which Adrien no longer owes anyone any money. Adrien's wife didn't notice any of this. When they all sit together three times by the pool of the newly built house, she learns that another relative has died and has left her a very large sum of money.
production
Sugar, sugar! is the film adaptation of the novel Le sucre by Georges Cochon , which was published in 1977. In it, Cochon processed rumors of a sugar shortage that had driven up sugar prices on the stock exchange in 1974. Cochon was also on the script for Zucker, Zucker! involved. The film was shot in Paris, Duvy and Miami (including Fontainebleau Miami Beach ). The costumes were created by Catherine Leterrier , the films were made by Jean-Jacques Caziot and Claude Lenoir .
Sugar, sugar! was released on November 15, 1978 in French cinemas and around 1980 in GDR cinemas. On April 8, 1993, the film was shown for the first time on German television on RTL and was released on DVD in June 2013.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Adrien Courtois | Jean Carmet | Joachim Konrad |
| Raoul-Renaud Homecourt | Gérard Depardieu | Uwe Karpa |
| Grezillo | Michel Piccoli | Helmut Schellhardt |
| Hilda Courtois | Nelly Borgeaud | Roswitha Hirsch |
| Karbaoui | Roger Hanin | Klaus Piontek |
| President Berot | Claude Piéplu | Walter Niklaus |
| Flanqué | Tony Taffin | Peter Hladik |
| Lomont | Maurice Chevit | Karl-Maria Steffens |
| minister | Guy de Belleval | Erhard Köster |
criticism
For the film service it was sugar, sugar! a "burlesque comedy that exaggerates its characters to the point of caricature." "The film to sweeten the stock market slump," said Cinema .
Awards
Sugar, sugar! was nominated for five Césars in 1979: two times in the category of Best Actor (Gérard Depardieu, Jean Carmet) and one time each in the categories of Best Supporting Actor (Jean Carmet), Best Supporting Actress (Nelly Borgeaud) and Best Screenplay (Georges Conchon, Jacques Rouffio ).
Web links
- Sugar, sugar! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Le sucre on dvdclassik.com
- ↑ a b See cinema.de
- ↑ Sugar, sugar! In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sugar, sugar! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .