Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté

• Jean -Paul Belmondo: Sam Lion
• Richard Anconina: Albert " Al " Duvivier
• Marie -Sophie L. Victoria
• Jean -Philippe Chatrier: Jean -Philippe
• Michel Beaune: corporate lawyer
• Pierre Vernier: Priest
• Lio: Yvette
• Béatrice Agenin: Corinne
• Daniel Gélin: Pierre Duvivier
• Philippe Lorin: GP
• Gila von Weitershausen: Africa acquaintance
• Annie Philippe: secretary
• Céline Caussimon:
• Udo Wachtveitl: Terrorist
• Arthur Brauss: Photographer

The lion ( Original: Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté ) is a film drama by director Claude Lelouch with Jean -Paul Belmondo in the title role of 1988 The film celebrated its premiere on December 7, 1989 in the Federal Republic of Germany. .

Action

As a child, Sam Lion is exposed by his mother on a carousel. He grew up as an artist in a traveling circus until it crashes hard with a number, and is only used as a cleaner. This leads him to the idea to start a cleaning company that he expands an empire. But when Lion is old, he no longer likes and wants to get out of this life. His dream is to spend in Africa with lions, his namesake, the evening of life. It reflects his family from a circumnavigation to want to make and prepares everything to get his family with the consolidated alive. At sea, he fakes his death and goes, as a Belgian, and under a new name, via Hamburg to Africa. There, in the Reserve, operates Al Duvivier, a former employee of his company.

This recognizes him and Lion fears for his cover. It stands to kill before deciding Duvivier or to use it for his purposes. Lion latter seems more sensible and he trains Al in self-confidence. Al Lion and return to France and Al to enter a gifted cleaning expert in the company. As a ticket is a letter of recommendation from Sam Lion, which is to have this written down before his disappearance. Lion bored in the meantime as a family and keeps phone contact with Al. After the two have enforced by Sam's lawyer with a list as setting, Duvivier befriends increasingly Lions with children Sophie and Jean -Pierre. Al finds out that Lions company "Victoria" is facing bankruptcy and tries to help Sam in the background to save the group. He succeeds and he even captured the heart of Victoria, Sam's daughter. But when she makes him a proposal of marriage, Sam Lions flies swindle by a carelessness as she seeks and Sam at his father. Sam can convince them that Al is not just a puppet. Al, which is beside herself, trying as before to measure Lion with the lions in a game park. Almost reached Victoria Al on the car phone and they get along. They marry and have a child together. Sam Lion now settled in peace in Africa.

Others

• In the German version missing about five minutes by the actors Arthur Brauss and Udo Wachtveitl.

Criticism

" Lelouch presents itself once more as a mediocre cinema garment manufacturer with this round sugar sweet images, coated with sticky music - a very unbearable combination, if in the end even the hallowed family idyll is sold as a goal of all desires. "

" An incredibly shallow cinematic entertainment. Kitsch, clichés, and the soundtrack give the film boring the rest "

Awards

César 1989:

• Jean -Paul Belmondo Best Actor
• Francis Lai for Best Film Music