Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres

• Louis de Funès: Ludovic Cruchot
• Michel Galabru Jérôme Gerber
• Maurice Risch: Beaupied
• Jean -Pierre Rambal: Taupin
• Guy Grosso: Tricard
• Michel Modo: Berlicot
• France Rumilly: Sister Clotilde
• Jean -Roger Caussimon: Bishop
• Mario David, oil cans thief
• Jacques François: Colonel
• Maria Mauban: Joséfa Cruchot
• Henri Genes: Restaurant Owner
• Lambert Wilson: Alien

Louis ' close encounter with the aliens ( original title: Le Gendarme et les extra terrestres ) is a French film from 1979 The comedy by Jean Girault is the penultimate of six films to the part played by Louis de Funès gendarmes of Saint Tropez. and describes how a chaotic police force, the invasion of human-looking, but inwardly mechanical aliens prevented.

Action

On a patrol on the highways in Saint- Tropez discover the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot and Beaupied successively the start of a UFO on a small clearing. You are first not believed by her boss Gerber. One night stands Cruchot against an alien who has assumed the form of a tanner.

As Cruchot notes that the aliens are indeed able to take on human form, but inside are made of mechanical parts and have to take oil to be to guarantee the functioning of their bodies, he wants to expose the copy of his boss and chill. However, it only applies to his real boss, he rammed a screwdriver into the buttocks. When he also does with the supervisor tanner, the Colonel, he also holds an alien, he is imprisoned as a threat to its environment. He can, however, relieve and take refuge in a monastery. Here he dresses up as a nun and must maintain the Masquerade, as his colleagues scour the monastery and the bishop appears.

Later, although he manages to escape, but he discovers that the invaders have spread and have taken their place among the civilian population. In order to get hold of him, Send the aliens a copy of Cruchots woman who is to lure him to the UFO. But he can escape. He can finally convince his colleagues about it, to act jointly against the threat. Through a channel that one of the strangers has lost, they learn of two copies, staying at a restaurant on the coast. Without her boss, who has taken a day off, they go where they meet two strange men who drink salad oil, as if it were wine. When they want to attack the two, an aquarium is destroyed, the contents of which pours through one of the two suspects. During this then flees screaming, can the other by means of a beam weapon, the restaurant disappear before he flees also.

Later, Gerber comes with his wife to the restaurant to eat there, he believes to dream, because the place is gone. When he hears strange noises from the beach, he follows it and witness how one of the aliens dissolves due to the contact with the water into its component parts and remains only as a rusty skeleton.

Now convinced of the existence of extraterrestrials, to Gerber does with his troop. To expose the invaders, they go with water cannons loose on the population. After a subsequent dressing down by the Colonel, they present him with the rusty remains of the beach. To be entirely convinced, but to one of the strangers are taken. In order to attract them, they build a UFO dummy and arm themselves with portable extinguishing spray. When it comes to fight, he manages the group, which then flies off with the spacecraft to hit the attacker to flee.

In a parade the next day, however, it is clear that the wrong people are left on the earth when they collapse as a late consequence of the attack of water on the road. The real gendarmes finally manages with difficulty to steer the spacecraft to Earth, where they are given a rapturous reception from the crowd after a crash landing in the sea.

Background

This production, which started on January 31, 1979 in the French, on 23 March 1979 in the German Federal Republic and on 21 November 1980 in the cinemas of the GDR, was the fifth in a six part series of films by the gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. The titles are:

• The policeman from Saint Tropez ( 1964)
• The gendarme from Broadway (1965 )
• Baldwin, marriage muffle ( 1968)
• Baldwin, the terror of St. Tropez ( 1970)
• Louis ' close encounter with the aliens (1979 )
• Louis and his crazy traffic wardens (1982 )

Awards

• The film was awarded in 1980 in Germany with the Golden Screen.

Reviews

• " Largely uninspired, only moderately funny comedy with some taste derailments and modest approaches to spoof of the sci-fi movie." - Lexicon of international film

• "Star comedian Funès as always out of breath, but the movie plot seems short of breath than usual; . Blödelhektikers for fans of " ( Score: 1 ½ out of 4 stars = default) - Lexicon " Movies on TV "