Mama, There's A Man in Your Bed

• Daniel Auteuil: Romuald blinded
• Firmine Richard: Juliette Bonaventure
• Pierre Vernier: Blache
• Maxime Leroux: Cloquet
• Gilles Private: Paulin
• Catherine Salviat: Françoise blinded
• Muriel Combeau: Nicole
• Aissatou Bah: Félicité
• Mamadou Bah: Désiré
• Marina M'Boa Ngong Claire
• Sambou Tati: Aimé
• Nicolas Serreau: official beiHLM
• Alain Tretout: Vidal
• Alain Fromager: Morton
• Isabelle Carré: Valérie
• Jean -Christophe Itier: Patrice
• Tadie Tuene: Otou
• Pascal N'Zonzi: Douta
• Emile Abossolo M'bo: Husband
• Akonio Dolo: Husband
• Fellow: Husband
• Caroline Jacquin: new secretary
• Gilles Cohen: chauffeur
• Carole Franck: receptionist
• Fabienne Chaudat: Madame Salgado
• Yves Attal: Judge
• Jose Garcia: Repairer

Milk and chocolate is a French film directed by Coline Serreau love from the year 1989.

Action

Romuald blinded is CEO of yogurt company Blanlait. He lives with his two children and his wife Françoise in affluent circumstances, be able to afford domestic help and his secretary Nicole a mistress, and plans to expand with the company. He wants not only the level of hourly yogurt production at its plant in St. Symphorien dramatically increase, but at the same time take over its biggest competitor, the company Vachelle. To achieve his goals, he appoints his confidant Paulin, who in turn secretly has a relationship with Romualdo's wife to his right hand - much to the dismay of his long-time employees Blache and Cloquet, which is now taking revenge on him. In order to achieve an increase of 200,000 to 250,000 per hour yogurt cups, Paulin has to save time. Cloquet advises him to give up the time-consuming quality and hygiene studies of milk and not to let the vats in which the milk is stored cleaned daily, which always took several hours. Paulin, who does not know anyway, how to create the increased production of cups, leaves to it. Simultaneously with Paulin's instruction to investigate all milk samples, Cloquet can enter into a vat through a middleman coliform bacteria. Some time later, 45 people are hospitalized with food poisoning. Blache, meanwhile Nicole instructed to buy just before the announcement of the takeover bid for Vachelle shares of the company. Later, she buys instead Blanlait shares, is abundantly clear that the ailing company by the food scandal will be swallowed shortly by Vachelle. Blache, in turn, reports Nicole's purchases to the police and have them arrested by the authorities when she wants to bring the sale proceeds to Blache. How did he inculcated her before, she now claims that she had made ​​the purchases on instruction, Romuald. Romuald is manipulated by Blache and now believes Paulin had betrayed the company. He dismisses Paulin.

While all of the events the black cleaning woman Juliette Bonaventure has been working silently in the background. She quietly emptied the wastebasket, while Blache and Cloquet seemingly undisturbed phoned, and also intercepted a Sticky Note, on the Cloquet noted the dangerous E. coli bacteria as a reminder. As Romuald Paulin just dismisses, Juliette comes to that. She advises Romuald to distrust rather Cloquet. He was to him, allegedly on mission in the province, call in Paris, telling him that everything was come out. Only a short time later Cloquet will appear in his office. At the same time makes Juliette Romuald clear that his wife is not at home, as he assumes. Although Romuald swarming them off, but then calls to Cloquet, shortly afterwards actually appears. At home again Françoise is not to find and Romuald realizes that Juliette was right, especially since he finds a love message written on blue paper for his wife in a jacket. At the Supervisory Board meeting again Romuald is issued. Blache is used as his successor, while Cloquet Paulin accepts items. Perplexed examined for Romuald and Juliette comes under her. While she takes care of her big budget and the five children by five fathers, Romuald ponders the things that could have happened behind his back in the company. Juliette tells him what she saw. He realizes that Nicole has bought the shares on behalf Blaches and this must have with her ​​a contract on the return of the money after a successful coup. In fact, it is possible Juliette to find this document. She herself eventually plays Blache against Cloquet.

In addition to her work for Romuald Juliette overcome their daily lives. It stands on the day of the fathers, communal feast for all five fathers of five children on the all celebrate her birthday and get gifts. Aimes father does not appear and Juliette is angry, the 17- year-old boy has a father but just now needed. Romuald steps in and gives him a Walkman. By Juliette's use of the machinations of Blache and Cloquet are revealed and Romuald is rehabilitated. He returns to the company and thus also in his everyday life and draws from Juliette. The soon has big problems: When Aimé cocaine was found and he is arrested. She hopes that Romuald can pay a good lawyer and the security deposit, but are the new secretary her request not to continue Romuald, who has just traveled to negotiations in the United States. Juliette believes that Romuald suddenly the fate of her family does not matter, and is deeply disappointed. Aimé is provided a public defender and he himself sentenced to the maximum punishment of 1.5 years in prison. Some time later, Romuald is back in Paris and meets one evening Juliette again. She tells him of the sentence Aimes and he is irritated that he knew nothing about it. In the evening he recognizes Paulin blue notebook again that he is the lover of his wife. He rushes back to the office where he meets Juliette crying. He comforts her and they sleep together. The next day, Romuald pulls into the hotel and getting a divorce from his wife ado. He makes Juliette a marriage proposal. However, you rejects him, he saw all men but only as his subordinates and had acted in her apartment as her boss. Romuald begins to change. He dismisses his secretary, Juliette can bring his car to work and bought her a dishwasher and washing machine. He secretly takes the children in his car in the school and leaves Juliette office giant flowers gifts. In addition, he buys a new house in which he wants to live with Juliette and the children. One day he waits for work on her and confesses his love again and all the things that he likes about her and her family. Juliette realizes his true affection and no longer dismisses him. They discuss their future marriage and agree on its points, so Juliette wants to keep the home and continue to work as a cleaner while it is still be Romuald right hand and moved with him and the children in the villa. The family comes together with Romualdo children and finally the wedding takes place, with the participation of all five ex-husbands Juliette and Romuald ex-wife Françoise participate. A little later pull Romuald and Juliette with their children in the new villa to. Romuald learns that Juliette is pregnant. Later you see them with the also pregnant Françoise and her husband Paulin as a happy extended family in the garden of the villa.

Production

Milk and chocolate was turned with in Paris. The film came in the French cinema, where he was 856 964 people visited on 22 March 1989. He ran on 1 June 1989 in the German cinemas and released on 16 November 1989 on video.

It was the film debut of Firmine Richard and Jose Garcia, who is seen in a small role as Fahrstuhlreparateur.

Synchronization

Criticism

The filmdienst wrote that " ... the beautiful dream of a love of all classes and racial barriers across with wit and turbulence " begins, but " in a flat family Kitsch " ends. " Real sweet, almost like a chocolate bar ," was cinema. " Impatient and with an almost unrelenting penetrance stomps this film through all the shoals of a business satire, until he finally, in the last third, soars into the fairytale ," wrote Urs Jenny in the mirror.

Awards

Milk and chocolate in 1991 was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film.