Le Petit Nicolas (film)

• Maxime Godart: Nick
• Valérie Lemercier: Nick's mother
• Kad Merad: Nick's father
• Sandrine Kiberlain: teacher
• François -Xavier Demaison: Hühnerbrüh
• Michel Duchaussoy: headmaster
• Daniel Prévost: Mr. Maßbaum
• Michel Galabru: Minister
• Anémone: Miss Navarin
• François Damiens: Blédur
• Louise Bourgoin: florist
• Vincent Claude: Otto
• Charles Vaillant: Georg
• Victor Carles: Clovis
• Benjamin Averty: Franz
• Germain Petit Damico: Roland
• Damien Ferdel: Adalbert
• Virgile Tirard: Joachim
• Elisa Heusch: Marie Hedwig
• Gérard Jugnot: Gérard Jugnot, choirmaster
• Nathalie Cerda: Woman Maßbaum
• Renaud Rutten: driving instructor
• Eric Berger: Albert, George Butler
• Serge Riaboukine: Francis Leborgne
• Jean -Michel Lahmi: released convict
• Didier Raymond: doctor
• Christian Taponard: doctor
• Alain Sachs: doctor
• Marc Faure: doctor
• Yves- Robert Viala: doctor
• Sophie- Charlotte Husson: Marie Hedwig's mother
• Dominique Jayr: old lady
• Isabelle Jacquet: Adalbert Mother
• Françoise Bertin: Roulette player
• Cédric Eeckhout: Employee
• Cyril Couton: Nick's uncle
• Marie Berto: Nick's aunt

Little Nicholas is a French-Belgian comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard from the year 2009.

Action

Little Nicholas to write in school, what he would like to be. Many eagerly writing classmates he knows what they want to become, but even still, he wants no plan for the future but that everything will stay as it. One day, classmate Joachim arrives late to class, but he is excused by a teacher: He has a little brother that night. While the teacher congratulated him, Joachim does not look happy. The baby cries all the time and no one cares, while all grumble when Joachim noise it makes. Joachim in turn did not want a brother, but a bicycle, and is now doubly frustrated. Nick wants to know how he found out that the parents get a little brother, and Joachim said that Papa to Mama was remarkably nice and even out the trash. A short time later also notes Nick that his parents were very peaceful with each other. When the father brings out the garbage, Nick knows that he will get a little brother. Not only Joachim's gloomy drawn picture of his future childhood scares him, but also the thought of potentially exposed by his parents in the forest, if the brother is there - such was the fact the Tom Thumb, whose history is dealt with right at the school.

Nick's father is planning to invite his boss Maßbaum with his wife to dinner, because he hoped it faster delivery. Nick may not be there when eating, because it would only interfere - he hears this disjointed and feared the worst. He tried in sequence to stand out by special worthiness. He visited among other unpopular friends and playing with their daughter Marie Hedwig and her girlfriends. Nevertheless, his mother invites him to end up at a walk in the woods on weekends. Here Nick locked the car doors and refused to come out so that its parents have to push the car home.

Nick and his friends form a secret society, which is to deal with the problem brother. You want to make it useful in Nick's house, thus showing that he is too important to be exposed. The cleaning action goes wrong, however, and leads to chaos and a machine- washed house cat. When his mother reacts indignantly, Nick immediately unpacked his things and goes, but returns after a short time back home. Because he was the first there must eventually end the brother disappear. This task will take a gangster. Nick calls to a car mechanic, he holds because of the same name for an escaped convict. However, the mechanic wants 500 francs for a " pick-up ". The children want to first earn money with roulette, but then issue still prefer to have brewed a potion whose effects they credibly with a trick. Soon they have taken 530 francs of children who may for that cost from the potion.

When Nick calls the mechanic, he asks, where is the car stand. Nick concludes that the gangster needs a car for his work. The rich George sends his chauffeur pick up ice and uses only the family car in motion, however, can not do anything except steering. The odyssey ends as planned in front of a phone booth. When the boys call again with the mechanic, Joachim appears with prams. He is now excited about his brother, who 's to say his name. He has realized that he will be the big brother later, is looked up to and as he can teach his little brother everything. Nick says the children from abduction and now wants to have a brother. However, his parents explain to him that the mother is expecting a child. This will change soon and Nick's mother is pregnant. After a long wait, the child comes into the world - a sister. Nick's dreams for the future are collapsing, and he is outraged. The sister he can not find beautiful unlike any other and notes that he, if he had foreseen this, but would have rather wanted a dog. All those present at his words begin to laugh heartily and Nick now knows what he wants to do later: He wants to make people laugh.

Production

Little Nicholas is based on the eponymous children's books by René Goscinny and Jean -Jacques Sempé. It was shot with a budget of 22 million Euro from May to October 2008 in Paris, Brussels and Nogent -sur -Marne and appeared on 30 September 2009 in the French and Belgian cinemas. He also ran on the day in the French-speaking parts of Switzerland. In Germany the film was released on August 26, 2010 in theaters in the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, on 2 September 2010 and in Austria on 17 September 2010. In April 2011, the film was released on DVD.

Criticism

For the mirror Little Nicholas was a "successful bestseller adaptation, which largely preserves the nostalgic charm of the legendary stories of René Goscinny and Jean -Jacques Sempé. " " The live-action adaptation of Laurent Tirard succeeds almost perfectly, the innocent humor and the nostalgic charm of the capture template " Cinema wrote.

Awards

Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron were nominated for Little Nicholas 2010 for a César for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film also one of the candidates for the Audience Award at the European Film Awards 2010 was.