Seducing Doctor Lewis

• Raymond Bouchard: Germain Lesage, replacement mayor
• David Boutin: Christopher Lewis, a cosmetic surgeon
• Benoît Brière: Henri Giroux, bank teller
• Pierre Collin: Yvon Brunet
• Rita Lafontaine: Hélène Lesage, Abhörerin
• Clémence Desrochers: Clotilde Brunet, second Abhörerin
• Roc LaFortune: Charles Campeau
• Lucie Laurier: Ève Beauchemin, post Lerin

The Great Seduction (La grande séduction ) is a Canadian comedy film from the year 2003. It was the first feature film from director Jean -François Pouliot and the most successful film of Québec in 2003.

Action

Germain Lesage is Your old, but still energetic and humorous, replacement mayor of Sainte -Marie -La- Mauderne. He remembers the happy childhood in the remote fishing village. The current reality, however, is pretty dull. The men live for years on welfare, because the fishing has dried up and there is no other work. Germain tried a factory for the settlement in the village to move and makes use of all sorts of tricks. A condition of the factory operator is that the future site has a doctor whose job is at least five years secured by contract. Therefore Write Germain and his friends, and Henri Yvon, all physicians in the province of Quebec City - but in vain. The former mayor has moved into the city, where he works as a police officer. Coincidentally, he checked the car the plastic surgeon Christopher Lewis. This was going too fast and has some dope in the car. As punishment, he was transferred for a month in the fishing village. This is the chance for residents. You want to persuade them to stay longer it necessarily. They learn that Christopher is a cricket fan. Therefore, the men stage a game without ever understanding the rules. The incoming physician is very enthusiastic and want to watch. Players save himself from the embarrassment just by cheering both teams on the end of the game.

Telephone calls Christopher with his girlfriend Brigitte are intercepted by two women of the village to get to know his preferences. Despite the frequent whistling in the earpiece he harbors no suspicions. Since the doctor loves beef stroganoff, the restaurant provides a fast "beef Strogonoff " festival. The next morning the patient stood with him snake. Later, he complained on the phone all the work with forty cases a day, then has less Germain rush. Christopher is a regular executed designed for him bill to please him. Since he had no father, Germain told him about his son, who would be in similar age - as it turns out later that he invented the story. Also, the information that Christopher feet may be used by the women of the town in provocative ways. Only Ève, the pretty postmistress, makes him the brush-off when he wants to go out to eat with her. When fishing, Christopher is on so clumsy that he secretly a diver must hang a fish on the hook, so that he finally makes a catch. The fact that the fish frozen, is explained by the great depth of the he was going. Christopher's love for jazz is reluctant shared by the villagers. Actually, the men care much more for hockey, but look for their guest's cricket. The village is located three hours from the nearest hospital. Christopher learns that the inhabitants were therefore treated earlier by the butcher.

The entrepreneur, Mr. Dupré, requires 50,000 CAD to bribe in order to locate the factory in the village. Germain wants to take out a loan at the local bank official, Henri Giroux. However, it is rejected by a higher authority. Finally, Henri approved the loan on your own, even though he knows that he will therefore be dismissed. A further condition for the longed factory is a population of over 200 Therefore, people run quickly from one location to another in order to appear twice as many.

Christopher ended the relationship with his girlfriend when he finds out that she is cheating on him for three years with his best friend. He is depressed, to have been lied to. Now he shares nothing with the world outside the island. At Germain and the other arises more and more the bad conscience about her a fraud. You are considering whether to set the seduction or they continue five years. When Christopher agrees to stay in Sainte -Marie -La- Mauderne, Germain dizzy at him, said they had another doctor under contract.

Ève Christopher invites you to dinner. She reveals to him that his phone calls were tapped to spy on him. It provides all the speech and Germain explained the financial difficulties of the people. Christopher is impressed by the truth remains. Thus, the factory that manufactures plastic pots located on the site. All finally have a job and thus find their pride again. The lucky as in Germain's childhood has returned in Sainte -Marie -La- Mauderne. Ève rejects a date with Christopher, but he is patient. You 've got five years time, possibly still know.

Reviews

• The lexicon of international film wrote: " Although the experienced village Comedy Plot runs overall routine now and has barely corners and edges [sic ], but maintains thanks to well-chosen punch lines and quirky characters in a most amusing way. "
• According to Cinema is the movie " funny, touching, endearing: According to this Canadian cinema gem you are ready for the island. "
• Günter H. Jekubzik described the film at www.filmtabs.de as " lovable funny ".
• Www.tvtv.de said: "With his debut film, the renowned French-Canadian advertising filmmaker and cinematographer Jean -François Pouliot celebrated, born in Montreal in 1957, a sensational success. , The Great Seduction, a comedy against the backdrop of social problems and mass unemployment, broke the Canadian box office all records and referred for weeks U.S. blockbusters to the courts. "

Awards (selection)

• 2004 won Jean -François Pouliot for best foreign film at the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.
• 2004 Allen Smith won a Genie Award for best camera work. In 10 other categories, there were nominations.
• 2004 the film won the Prix Jutra seven times, including the Golden Ticket for the most successful at the box office film of the year.

Background information

The film was shot in the small Canadian village Harrington Harbour, located on the eponymous island belongs to the province of Quebec.

The movie is with revenues of about 8.424 million CAD ​​in third place of the most financially successful film productions from Quebec and indeed behind the action-comedy Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) and the dramatic love story Séraphin: un homme et son péché (as of September 24, 2006 ). The film had over a million viewers in Canada.

The film was first presented at the Hamburg Film Festival in Germany on 25 September 2003. In the German cinema, he was born on 2 December 2004. DVDs were published in German and French. The English film title is Seducing Doctor Lewis and Seducing Dr. Lewis.

Remakes

The great seduction served as the basis for the German ZDF television production on Doctor come out (2009) with Andreas Pietschmann, Mira Bartuschek and Henry Hübchen