A Slightly Pregnant Man

The maternity trousers, also known as Help, my husband is pregnant and most significant event ( original title: L' Événement le plus important depuis que l' homme a marché sur la lune ) is a French-Italian film comedy starring Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni from the year 1973.

Action

The driving instructor Marco Mazetti and the hairdresser Irène de Fontenoy live together in Paris. Together they have an eight- year-old son named Lucas. As Irène and Marco attend a concert of Mireille Mathieu, Marco gets a sudden abdominal pain. As these are worse and his belly is getting rounder, he goes to the doctor, Dr. Delavigne. After a brief survey and an initial examination Dr. Delavigne announced the startling diagnosis: Marco is four months pregnant. The doctor advises Marco to see a specialist, and immediately calls the gynecologist Professor Gérard de Latour at Chaumont. Puzzled and worried, Marco then buys a book on human anatomy.

Irène travels Marco the next day to Professor Chaumont. Along the way, Marco does not feel well what to stop Irène causes. When she finally tells Marco that he would have a child, Irène faints. When Professor Chaumont she regains consciousness and has expressed shock, but she believes, Marco had cheated on her with a man. The professor and Dr. Delavigne assure you, however, that a child can only come into existence between man and woman. The professor says that Marcos unusual condition is a result of environmental pressures and the modern diet that would have changed his hormone balance. Marco located considers to one an advanced stage of evolution. At a medical meeting, the professor will present Marcos case the professional world.

The news of Marcos state gets around fast. Marco and Irène are then invited to a television show. The international press pounces on the curious case and also the fashion industry expressed interest. While Irène takes the situation with humor, gets Marco, who now makes a model for maternity wear advertising, increasingly panicked. In a daydream he sees how put him two men in white coats on a pool table and first consider him a phone and then a chicken from the abdomen. As a self- Irène is dealing seriously with the role reversal, eventually turns out that Dr. Delavigne and Professor Chaumont were wrong. X-rays, which could not be done before for the benefit of the embryo, showing that Marco is not pregnant. When Irène and Marco give the knot in the hair salon after years of wedlock, Irène announced that she was expecting a child.

Background

Director Jacques Demy had Catherine Deneuve with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ( Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964) once made ​​a star. Deneuve and her co-star Marcello Mastroianni were also behind the scenes a couple. Their daughter Chiara Mastroianni was a year earlier come into the world.

Filming took place from late March to mid-May 1973 in Paris held, among other things, the Avenue des Champs -Elysees, before and at the Palais Bourbon and the Bobino on the Rue de la Gaîté Montparnasse, where Mireille Mathieu in the film has their appearance and the song Mon Paris sings. At the beginning of the film is already listening to the song L' Événement le plus important Mathieu.

The maternity trousers was premiered on 20 September 1973 in France. Under the title The most significant event of the film was released in the GDR on 13 September 1974. In the Federal Republic of Germany, he was released on video in 1983 and first shown on October 28, 1986 by RTL plus on television.

Reviews

According to the Encyclopedia of the International film came out the maternity trousers " from a very personal situation." " However, directorial too complacent and simply to be comprehensible " The film was. In addition, will the issue of gender roles in their " ironic [ s ] " representation " by simply reversing the gender roles away". Cinema came to the conclusion: "Although not every gag hits the mark, the (then privately verbandelte ) Duo Deneuve and Mastroianni consoles across all weaknesses. "

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