Two crazy jokers (film)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
German title Two crazy jokers
Original title Les compères
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1983
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Francis Veber
script Francis Veber
production Jean-Claude Bourlat
music Vladimir Cosma
camera Claude Agostini
cut Marie-Sophie Dubus
occupation
synchronization

Two crazy jokers (original title: Les compères ) is a French comedy film directed by Francis Veber from 1983.

action

Christine and her husband Paul Martin are looking for their 16-year-old son Tristan, who ran away with the somewhat older Michèle. They go from Paris to Nice , where Michele's father owns a run-down hotel. Since the latter sees no reason to run after his adult daughter, and certainly not worries about a boy he does not know, the Martins return to Paris without result. Christine visits her former love, the journalist Jean Lucas. She explains to him that Tristan is his son and asks him to help with the search. However, Jean is currently working on a large case and refuses a search, especially since he hadn't known about the existence of a son for all these years. Christine now turns to the second acquaintance of her youth, the always depressed and suicidal François Pignon. After a depression, he was trying to shoot himself when Christine's call got him. Although she quickly realizes at a meeting that François has too great problems of his own to be of any help, she tells him about his alleged fatherhood and the missing son. François enthusiastically agrees to look for Tristan.

François goes to Nice, where Jean is also staying in the course of researching casino crime and the criminal Rossi. Both have the photo of Tristan with them that Christine gave them. Without further ado, Jean decides to look for Tristan on site. One after the other, he and François pay a visit to Michèle's father, who is surprised by the multitude of Tristan's fathers. When at the end two of Rossi's henchmen appear, who in turn ask why Jean is visiting, the father is completely confused.

François and Jean get to know each other through a visit to Michèle's father and initially believe that they are looking for different boys. Only a visit to Michèle's mother makes it clear to them that they are both looking for Tristan. You continue to follow his trail and end up in the rocker pub Rocker’s . Here it becomes clear that Tristan’s gang has had enough, especially since Michèle has separated from him. Without further ado, François and Jean take the sleeping Tristan with them to their hotel. The next morning he learns that both men are his potential fathers. Without further ado, he runs away from them and returns to the rocker gang. After a fight in which François and Jean are also involved, Tristan has a broken arm, which is put in a cast. François and Jean also experience enough: After an incident with Rossi's men, in which Jean is to be lured into a trap, François meets an important tipster Jeans, whom he thinks is also depressed. When the latter calls him later, dying, François rushes to him and takes an envelope that contains important material against Rossi for Jean's research. It was only by chance that Jean found out that François' “depressed” was in fact his tipster. He can secure the material François received and put Rossi behind bars. Tristan's father used his son's time off to rethink his own behavior towards him. In a phone call, he makes it clear to Tristan that he has to tell the two false fathers the truth. Tristan agrees, but explains to both of them unnoticed by the other that he is his real father. François and Jean are over the moon. Tristan, in turn, walks away with both of them at their side and wonders aloud when it is actually Father's Day.

production

Two crazy jokers was filmed in Paris and Nice. Corinne Jorry created the costumes and Gérard Daoudal designed the film . The film opened in French cinemas on November 23, 1983, where it was seen by 4,847,229 viewers. The film was released in West Germany on October 19, 1984 and was also shown in GDR cinemas from March 28, 1986. The German television premiere was on December 27, 1987 on DFF 1 . From August 2005 the film was available on DVD. Ivan Reitman made a remake of A Father Too Many in 1997 .

synchronization

role actor Voice actor (FRG) Voice actor (DDR)
François Pignon Pierre Richard Harry Wüstenhagen Wolfgang Ostberg
Jean Lucas Gérard Depardieu Christian Brückner Uwe Karpa
Jeannot Roland Blanche Joachim Tennstedt
Milan Philippe Khorsand Hans Nitschke
Paul Martin Michel Aumont Heinz Theo branding
Raffart Maurice Barrier Jürgen Kluckert

criticism

The lexicon of international films found the story "not particularly original ...", but praised the fact that it was "staged with a light hand and a sense of situation comedy, to which the play of the opposing actor types contributes a lot".

Cinema summarized the film as "action comedy with French charm" and "top" and wrote that "the poor Richard and the grumpy Depardieu [...] make a wonderful comedian couple".

Awards

Two Crazy Jokers was nominated for two Césars in 1984: Gérard Depardieu received a nomination for Best Actor and Francis Weber for Best Original Screenplay .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See allocine.fr
  2. Two crazy jokers. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  3. Two crazy jokers. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  4. Two crazy jokers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. See cinema.de