Asterix Versus Caesar

Asterix - Caesar 's victory over ( Original title: Astérix et la surprise de César ) is the fourth Asterix animated film from 1985, which is mainly based on the two comic books Asterix the Legionary and Asterix the Gladiator.

Action

As Obelix on the way into the forest to hunt wild boar together with Asterix, he meets Panacea, in which he falls in love on the spot. Panacea is the beautiful niece of Majestix who has just returned from Lutetia, where she had completed her studies. To the chagrin of Obelix, however Panacea is already Tragicomix, the son of a chief, engaged.

In Rome, Gaius Obtus to align an overwhelming victory celebration for Julius Caesar. Upon successful alignment of the celebration Caesar would make him the richest man in Rome, however, he should fail, they would accuse him to the lion to devour.

As Panacea and Tragicomix walk in the forest of Armorica, they are captured by a troop of Romans under the ambitious but inexperienced Decurio Superbus. Rather than impress the centurion with the capture, this is appalled and angered by Superbus, knowing that this would only provoke the Gauls to attack the camp of the Romans to free their friends. So he sends Superbus, together with the prisoners to Condate, from where they are to be sent with the Foreign Legion to Africa.

The Angry Gauls overrun a short time later actually the camp of the Romans, where they have disappointed to find the absence of their friends. Asterix and Obelix are now to follow the Romans and bring back Panacea and Tragicomix. In Condate they learn that the two were sent to a camp in the African desert. Therefore, they decide to join the Foreign Legion, as they can follow them as the fastest. After both have their training successfully completed at Centurion breeze radius, it goes on to Massilia, where they will board a ship to Africa.

Meanwhile, Panacea and Tragicomix located in the Roman camp of Centurion Aerobus in the African desert. They manage to escape from the camp, but is ahead of them only the vastness of the desert. But apparently, the two lucky when passes a camel caravan and they are taken to the sea. Soon, however, it turns out that they are slave traders, which both sell at once to Rome to the slave traders Farfelus. In Rome, the supreme gladiator trainer Gaius Obtus blackmailed the dealer Farfelus, so he makes him the two Gauls to the present.

In the desert, Asterix and Obelix take on the caravan of slave traders and learn from them that they have sold the two Gauls as slaves. Thus the two now make their way to Rome. In the meantime, will be presented in Rome Panacea and Tragicomix Caesar. Since the two Caesar not want to subject, they are to be thrown to the lions in the Coliseum.

Gaius Obtus meanwhile discovered the incredible powers of Obelix and Asterix want him and all that he holds for his coach, zwangsrekrutieren as gladiators. Since Asterix has left his potion lie during the visit to the spa, it 's men caught Gaius Obtus can take and lock him in a basement dungeon. Obelix is able to track Asterix and save him from the dungeon, just before this threatened fully run with water. Idefix has seen swimming by in the meantime, the bottle with the potion in a sewer and follows this - Obelix unnoticed.

Asterix and Obelix learn that Panacea and Tragicomix in the Coliseum are. Since they can not in the Colosseum because of the many guards, they decide to volunteer at Gaius Obtus as gladiators. The sends delighted to his gladiator trainer breeze radius with which the two had already made ​​in Condate as an instructor of Foreign Legionnaires acquaintance.

Idefix has brought in the meantime the bottle of potion from the wastewater and is thus on the way to the Colosseum, where just the victory celebration for Caesar begins. Since the Gallic charioteer Formulix was late, Asterix and Obelix take on the chariot race, they win. After the two have also won the Gladiator fight, and Panacea Tragicomix be sent to them in the arena. Just when you can free the lion to them, Idefix comes with the magic potion as a knight in shining armor. While Asterix and Tragicomix strengthened by the potion to defeat the Lions, Obelix is the renewed sight Falbalas so infatuated that he umrennt a column by mistake and so brings a part of the Colosseum to collapse. Caesar granted the Gauls generous freedom and so they can return to their village, where they celebrate a feast.

Background

To implement the portrayal of the characters according to the comics, the 149 individual figures and 6,000 backgrounds were created with 355 different colors, what finally half a ton of color, 12,900 pencils and 1,000 brushes were used. In addition, 50 kilometers tape have been consumed, 70,000 colored celluloid films and 45,000 leaf painted paper to collect a total of 120,000 drawings with a special animation camera.

The film uses a number of Latin quotations. So used the centurion after the demolition of the Roman camp a modification of the words "I came, I saw, I conquered " ( " Veni vidi vici " ) by saying: ". I came, I saw, I did not win " ( " Veni, vidi, vici non. "). After Asterix discharges in the same scene from him, the centurion says the sentence: " The die is cast. " ( " Alea iacta est "). In addition, the Gladiators Caesar greet with the words " Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant ".

Theatrical release in France on 11th December 1985 in the Federal Republic of Germany on 6 March 1986 and in East Germany on 9 October 1987.

The composed for the film by Vladimir Cosma theme song Astérix est là was sung by Plastic Bertrand, who for the German version of the title with German text ( Asterix is there) sings.

Reviews

" Right entertaining animated film, albeit without particularly good animation and the wit of the original. "

" Entertainment for fans, perfectly drawn and served funny."

"By this, that the Coliseum is a ruin in Rome, no one else making debt as the good-natured Obelix who accidentally came to the classic times of antiquity against a pillar so that the amphitheater collapsed. Even otherwise, Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's Cartoons (1985 ) is not exactly squeamish about the Eternal City and the Romans. However, critics complained about blurred movements of the characters and dull color compositions. "

Awards

The film was awarded the Golden Screen 1987 for the achievement of three million moviegoers within 18 months.

Synchronization

Soundtrack

• Vladimir Cosma, Plastic Bertrand: Astérix et la surprise de César. Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. In: Astérix chez les Bretons • Astérix et la surprise de Cesar. Cosma Cinéma Collection, Vol 20, Pomme Musi / Larghetto Music / Sony, sl 1995, Media -No. 951 292 - original recording of the film music under the baton of the composer.