La Cage aux Folles (film)
- Ugo Tognazzi: Renato Baldi
- Serrault: Albin Mougeotte
- Claire Maurier: Simone
- Rémi Laurent Laurent Baldi
- Carmen Scarpitta: Louise Charrier
- Benny Luke: Jacob
- Luisa Maneri: Andrea Charrier
- Michel Galabru: Simon Charrier
- Venantino Venantini: Chauffeur the Charriers
La Cage Aux Folles (Original title: La Cage aux Folles, literally: The cage of fools ) is an Italian-French comedy film from 1978 and is considered the world's first successful film of the drag queen milieu. It is based on a play by Jean Poiret from the year 1973.
Action
The focus of the film is a homosexual couple, Renato, the owner of a night club with a drag- program in St. Tropez, and his longtime friend and star of the club, Albin. From Renato 's only short adventure with a wife is his son Laurent, Albin and raised him lovingly. It comes to amusing tangles, wants to marry than now to the young man matured Laurent. His fiancée Andrea is just the daughter of a conservative politician.
Andrea is with her parents on the way to St. Tropez, who want to learn Laurent and his parents at a dinner. Laurent sake Renato and Albin are ready to play a conventional family, and try to make their exalted furnished apartment inconspicuous. In the presence of relatives -in-law, they have big problems to hide their homosexuality.
Awards
Reviews
- " Plate Trivial Comedy, go their laughter almost exclusively at the expense of pre- led cliché - outsider. " Lexicon of international film
- " Plenty of daring, internationally popular farce with excellent moments and some lengths. " ( " Internationally popular near-the - knuckle farce with excellent moments and some longueurs. "). Rating: 1 Star ( out of four possible ).
Reception
The first, written by Jean Poiret for the stage play was filmed in 1978, 1983 brought to Broadway as a musical. The music and the lyrics penned Jerry Herman, the book Harvey Fierstein. It was, albeit in a very toned down and conservative version, the first Broadway musical that turned gay issues. It won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and was played 1761 times. The German premiere took place in 1985 in the Berlin theater of the West.
In 1996, a Hollywood remake titled The Birdcage - A paradise for birds shrill: rotated (AKA The Birdcage ).