Lovers Like Us
- Yves Montand: Martin
- Catherine Deneuve: Nelly
- Luigi Vannucchi: Vittorio
- Tony Roberts: Alex Fox
- Bobo Lewis: Miss Mark
- Dana Wynter: Jessie Coutances
- Dobtcheff Vernon Coleman
- Luis Gerardo Tovar: Ribeiro
The beautiful Wild (Original title: Le Sauvage ) is a French-Italian film comedy starring Yves Montand and Catherine Deneuve from 1975 directed by Jean -Paul Rappeneau. .
Action
The beautiful Nelly celebrates with her Italian fiance Vittorio and his family their stag party in Venezuela. As they lie in bed at night and Vittorio has fallen asleep, Nelly gets cold feet and packs her bags. In a hotel where she wants to spend the night, she meets Martin, a French compatriot. The bellhop informed Meanwhile, Vittorio about Nelly's whereabouts. This appears angry at the hotel and passes through the balcony in Nelly's room. He believes that she had an affair, and is looking for her lover. When she loudly quarrel and start to lash out, Martin comes in, to prevent worse. Nelly then flees with Vittorio's car and is looking for her boss Alex Fox on in the night club. He owes her still wages they now demands to leave Venezuela. Alex can not give her the money. As Vittorio shows up in the club, Alex Nelly leaves his office alone. While he thrashes with Vittorio, Nelly steals a valuable painting by Toulouse- Lautrec.
Nelly finally returns to the hotel and wants Martin to sell the painting. However, he does not have enough money with me, but can be persuaded to drive them to the airport. There he worried Nelly a plane ticket to Paris. He returns to a deserted island in the Caribbean, where he lives like Robinson Crusoe. Perfume maker he had once made a great name. However, the fame, but also his marriage to an American woman and the modern civilization he has duly satisfied. When he arrives on the island with his boat, it comes surprisingly contrary to Nelly, who had flown to Paris to take his island. Nelly is hoping Martin would bring his boat to Santo Domingo, where they would like the image of Toulouse- Lautrec sell for a profit. When Martin wants to bring them back instead to the mainland, Nelly suggests a leak in the boat, causing it to sink. Back on the island, the Mad Martin barricaded in his house, so that Nelly is forced to stay at the boat dock.
The next morning, Martin, to build a new boat begins. While he was concerned in the jungle wood for his boat, Nelly sneaks into his house to get something to eat. In the evening, she manages to imprison Martin in his basement. However, he finds another way out and is now trying to evict them from his house. When he gives her a pineapple on his head, Nelly falls to the ground unconscious. Worried Martin wears it on his porch and bring her something to drink. When she regains consciousness, she gives Martin an intimate kiss. After the subsequent night together Martin is willing to go to Santo Domingo. Nelly, who has now hoping for a common future runs, including crying. She finds a small hut, where he set a. Martin's wife Jessie, meanwhile, holds a conference in New York from her company, created for the Martin perfumes. As it turns out, the company provides behind his back that Martin can have its home-grown foods regularly sell on the mainland. In addition, we can observe him at every step of Miss Mark and photograph secretly the company.
Martin finally invites Nelly to a dinner in his house. When he is finished with his preparations, draws on a thunderstorm. He waits and waits, but Nelly is not coming. He finally goes to her hut and finds her reading on her bed in front. When she got into a fight, a man suddenly appears in front of Nelly's window. Vittorio and Alex arrived with several men on the island. While Martin is beaten, Vittorio Nelly brings on his yacht. Alex, meanwhile, finds his paintings of Toulouse- Lautrec, who, however, was killed in Nelly's caused shipwreck in the water and is now barely recognizable. While the yacht finally drives away, Martin is injured and helpless before his burning house. The next morning, Miss Mark flying with an airplane around the island and sees Martin unconscious on the jetty are. With a rescue helicopter he is finally brought to the mainland. When he regained his strength, he travels with his wife to New York. Under the contract, he must establish new fragrances eight more years for the company. Otherwise, he must go to prison, for which Martin ultimately decides. After he has served his sentence, he returns to Venezuela. He is looking at Vittorio, who is now with another woman. In the hotel where he once met Nelly, him the concierge enough a message to the effect that Nelly has returned to France. When Martin appears there in front of her house, Nelly drops him happy in his arms.
Background
The shooting took place, among others, in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands and in New York. Max Douy was responsible for the Filmbauten, Catherine Leterrier for the costumes.
When painting that Nelly steals her boss in the film, is La Goulue au Moulin Rouge arrivant of Toulouse- Lautrec. The copy in the film, however, is reversed.
The premiere of the film took place on November 26, 1975 held in France, where more than 2.3 million spectators flocked to the result in the cinemas. In Germany, the comedy was first published on 16 January 1976.
Reviews
" Imaginative poignant comedy that made fun of the escapism romance with spirit full of charm and despite some shortcomings peppy maintains ," was the lexicon of international film. For prism was the beautiful and wild " a fast-paced, exceptional comedy film about the longing for an ideal world, which is less inclined to a spectacular production, as the excellent play of their two main characters ." Cinema moved simply concludes: " Cute dropout fun of Jean -Paul Rappeneau. "
Awards
When Cesar Awards 1976 the film Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Editing for the César was in the categories of Best Actress ( Catherine Deneuve ), nominated. Deneuve was beaten Romy Schneider in Nachtblende in their category ultimately. In the other categories was the comedy film from empty.
German version
The German synchronous processing was made for the German first released in the cinema. Yves Montand was then synchronized by Arnold Marquis and Catherine Deneuve by Helga Trümper.