The Big Restaurant
- Louis de Funès: Monsieur Septime
- Bernard Blier: Commissioner
- Maria-Rosa Rodriguez: Sophia
- Venantino Venantini: Henrique
- Folco Lulli: President Novales
- Noel Roquevert: Minister
- Jacques Legras: Police Agent
- Robert destain: Baron
- Paul Préboist: Sommelier
Sharp curves for Madame is a French comedy film from 1966 with Louis de Funès. The film about a choleric restaurant operator in Germany under the title Oscar wears the trousers fully known and also ran as Louis, the spaghetti cooking, in the GDR, he appeared under the title The large restaurant.
Action
The Parisian restaurateur seventh leads a renowned gourmet restaurant, where he exploits the operations nearly to perfection. This most importantly get his employees to feel that he twisted pedantic and partially submerged very rugged. Furthermore, it is also not too bad, incognito and disguised to test the quality of its Gastronomität.
As president Novales, Head of State of an obviously Latin American country, his visit to the " seventh " announces the restaurant manager running on top form and prepares its arrival before it. The climax of the evening seventh want the " pyramid à la seventh ," a multi-storey flambé dessert, ignite. But this is detonated, after which Novales seems like disappeared from the earth.
The police in the form of an officious Commissioner as well as the companion of the President suspect a kidnapping and first seventh as the mastermind. However, after a police interrogation, he is relieved. The Commissioner explained seventh, that after Novales Appointed from an existing military opposition has formed, which operates from abroad. This opposition suspects the police are behind the kidnapping. However, as only experiences of the audience, by a collaborator out of Novales rod opponents also not be behind the kidnapping. To elucidate the incident they attach themselves from now on Septimes heels.
The choleric is the next course of action more and more at the mercy of the parties involved. Novales secretary Sophia forces Septime solve the case himself. And the police in the form of the Commissioner uses this secret as a decoy to the opposition (which polizeilicherseits are suspected to be kidnappers ) at a fictitious ransom drop to apprehend them. The action moves into the Alps, where the police can arrest the opposition after a chase by car and helicopter. Seventh is for the time being pardoned.
But hardly at large Septime is kidnapped again and moved to a private estate. Here he meets the lively putz Novales working in the garden, which enlightens him: the president himself has faked his abduction to escape the stress of his office for a certain time. That seventh this unintentionally became a victim, Novales makes later well: he leaves seventh hype and fame for the successful education of the kidnapping and stylized it so the hero.
The subsequent celebration is again rounded by Septimes flambéed dessert - which then explodes once more ...
Criticism
" Enjoyable entertainment with successful ideas. " Short writes the lexicon of international film. The Evangelical movie watchers, however, concludes: "An incident tuberculosis suffering comedy, which could not be accommodated satisfactorily ends meet with the help of the French original Louis de Funès. A totally misleading title should as well help out a little. From 14 no concerns, but also not a recommendation. "
Trivia
- Louis de Funès is here synchronized by Klaus Miedel held by Gerd Martienzen.
- In one scene, seventh explained the German host Müller a prescription. In this case, a lamp casts such a shadow on de Funès face that this is visually like Adolf Hitler. Additionally speaks seventh ( also in the original French) while German and fits his style of language which Hitler to.
- The exteriors of the restaurant depicted in the film were taken prior to the current restaurant " Ledoyen " in Paris, this is right behind the Petit Palais on Avenue Dutuit.