The Intouchables

• François Cluzet: Philippe
• Omar Sy: Driss
• Anne Le Ny: Yvonne
• Audrey Fleurot: Magalie
• Clotilde Mollet: Marcelle
• Bellugi Alba: Elisa
• Cyril Mendy: Adama
• Christian America: Albert
• Grégoire Oester man: Antoine
• Marie -Laure Descoureaux: Chantal
• Absa Dialou Toure: Mina
• Salimata Kamate: Fatou
• Thomas Soliveres: Bastien
• Dorothée Briere Meritte: Éléonore

Intouchables ( original title: Intouchables, French for The Untouchables ) is a French film comedy of directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano from the year 2011, the production is based on published in the 2001 autobiography Le second souffle of former Pommery CEO Philippe Pozzo di. Borgo, which crashed in June 1993 and since then paragliding is quadriplegic. Intouchables tells less about the friendship between him and his long-time carer for the the wealthy, but living in isolation Philippe is with his new unconventional way to live.

The feature film with François Cluzet and Omar Sy in the lead roles was shot, among others in Paris, Seine- Saint- Denis, Savoie and the seaside resort of Deauville on the Channel. In France he became after the publication in November 2011 with 19.2 million viewers, the most successful domestic production of the year. In German-speaking countries came Intouchables in January 2012 to the cinema and also became a popular success. Alone in Germany, where the film was in the theaters more than a year, saw the film over nine million visitors. The worldwide box office receipts totaled over 444 million dollars.

Critics praised by mutual agreement of both the game's two main characters and the tragicomic staging. In the 37th Cesar Awards in February 2012 went Intouchables with nine nominations in the race, and Omar Sy won the award for Best Actor. Moreover, the film for the Golden Globe Award for " Best foreign language film " for the BAFTA Award and was nominated in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. It was also Intouchables as the official candidate of France selected on an Oscar nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film.

Action

In a flashforward delivered the main characters Driss, the dark-skinned driver, with the light-skinned Philippe paralyzed in the passenger seat a chase with police through nocturnal Paris. Driss bets with Philippe to escape the police in her Maserati Quattroporte V, but this succeeds soon to stop the car. Driss is ruthlessly dragged from the car, but with the help of a fake epileptic seizure of Philippe and the Declaration of Driss, that this was the reason for the rage, both can escape a penalty and even escorted by police vehicles in a rush to the nearest hospital.

Following this pre-orifice of the storyline starts with getting to know Philippe and Driss. The wealthy Philippe is paralyzed down for a paragliding accident from the third cervical vertebral body and looking for a new nurse. Driss, who was recently released from a six-month prison sentence for robbery, is running for the sake of form around the workplace with Philippe. Driss is the belief that he would receive a rejection letter. He wants only a signature as confirmation in order to be able to present to the labor office, so he can receive unemployment benefits. Philippe was impressed, because he has no pity on him and amused by his physical disability Driss. Then Driss gets to his surprise, the job on a trial basis. The main characters are characterized by significantly different characters and attitudes. Philippe is widowed, has an adopted daughter and lives with a number of domestic servants in a palace in Saint- Germain -des- Prés district.

Philippe learns about a friend of Driss ' criminal past. But he is not worried about it as long as he performs his work without any problems. Philippe leads Driss approach to classical music and painting. Driss brings Philippe to call his pals Éléonore in Dunkirk and to send her a photo. However, an agreed date does not take place, since Philippe leaves out of fear just before the time agreed for the meeting the local. When at the same moment Éléonore enters the restaurant, cover more than one person the view so that the two do not meet. Philippe, dissatisfied with himself, Driss calls and leaves with him fled Paris in a private jet. Airborne Philippe revealed to him that he had received 11,000 euros for a Driss " Painted" paintings, and gives him an envelope with the money. As it turns out for Driss, they go " paragliding ", and so the Senegalese is suddenly full of fear before his first tandem flight.

Driss has problems with his family and leaves Philippe after a few months when his stepbrother Adama shows up in the villa. The separation falls Philippe and Driss obviously difficult. Driss returns to his family and, after a successful interview a job as a courier driver.

Philippe represents one after another new nurse on a sample that can not fill nearly the role of Driss. Worried housekeeper Yvonne contacted Driss who comes back again, and the chase shown to film the beginning takes place. "And how do we proceed? " Asks Philippe, as they stand in front of the hospital. Driss summarizes a plan and continues with Philippe on the Channel coast.

At a restaurant visit Driss leaves the table and Philippe promises that this will not eat alone. Driss has an appointment with Philippe's penpal Éléonore arranged that appears shortly thereafter.

At the end of the film, a brief shot of the real Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and his friend Abdel Yasmin Sellou is shown.

Background

The film is based on a true story and tells the story of the former managing director of Champagne producer Pommery, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, who became a quadriplegic when he crashed on June 27, 1993 paragliding and so badly injured his spine that he has since been paralyzed from the neck down. At that time he lived in Paris Palais Hôtel de Longueuil in the 7th arrondissement and was looking for a nurse who was to take care of him around the clock. This Pozzo di Borgo fell on the many applicants, the 21 -year-old Algerian Abdel Yasmin Sellou, which had previously been released from prison and wanted to actually do not have the job. Philippe presented a Sellou anyway, which was the next ten years his nurse. After 1996 Philippe's first wife had died of cancer, the then 45 -year-old had fallen into a deep depression and thought of suicide. Sellou helped him out of this depression, and both took a lot of traveling together. From the employee relationship, a deep friendship was born; one of the last trips together they led in 2003 to Marrakech. There, Philippe met his second wife know and now lives with her ​​and his two daughters near the Moroccan port of Essaouira. Also Sellou place in Morocco in his wife and is now the father of three children and operator of a broiler operation in Algeria.

The film is based on the autobiography of Pozzo di Borgo, which he published in France in 2001 under the title Le second souffle ( Second Breath ). This was followed by many inquiries about the film rights of the book, which he declined all. Only in 2010 he was persuaded by the two directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano to have put his life on the big screen. The two directors had played since 2003 with the idea to film the extraordinary life of Pozzo di Borgo, after seeing a documentary of Mireille Dumas about the special friendship between Pozzo di Borgo and Sellou. In August 2010, she invited Pozzo di Borgo, together with the two main actors Francois Cluzet and Omar Sy to a lunch to Essaouira one. Finally agreed Pozzo di Borgo under the condition that five percent of the proceeds go to his Foundation for Disabled Simon of Cyrene, and that a film screening takes place in his rehab center in Brittany. So far, around one million euros was donated in this way.

The budget of the movie was 9.5 million euro, meanwhile, were about 426 million U.S. dollars worldwide ingested (about 321 million euros ), of which in France about 166 million and 79 million more dollars in Germany.

Reception

Publication and success

The film was launched on 2 November 2011 in the cinemas of France and Belgium. In France, he became the most successful comedy of 2011 and the third most successful film with over 19.2 million moviegoers.

On January 5, 2012 has been the theatrical release in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland. Also in Germany the film opened very successfully: On the first weekend came around 290,000 spectators, making Intouchables in the Media Control Charts Cinema debuted at number two. A week later, the film jumped with 468,000 visitors to the top of the German box office, where he could keep the next few weeks. More than 9 million viewers watched it in German cinemas. In Switzerland, so far more than 1.4 million viewers watched the movie. In Austria, the film previously took in 704,000 visitors a total of 4.67 million euros.

Reviews

Anne Facompre of Filmstarts.de designated Intouchables as " beautifully staged and very touching drama with tragicomic undertones [ ... ] in which a difficult subject with appropriate seriousness and yet with a lot of ease is tackled. " Like many other reviewers praised Facompre notably the play of the two protagonists. The film convince "primarily by his actors. Young star Omar Sy and François Cluzet equally brilliant in their roles, with the latter exclusively with his facial expressions and his voice paints a very complex portrait without emphasizing the disability Philippe's too much. The veteran actor also benefits from the freshness and insouciance of his younger partner, giving the interaction a special dynamic [ ... ] The relationship of the two magnificently harmonious protagonist is clearly the heart of the emotional film. "

According to Lena Bopp of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung production associations " Unequal tender and funny." Although the script ausließe hardly an opportunity to " pun to use," was the comedy " touching without ever having to be embarrassed. " With the film was "the rare feat of turning a already in the reality in the kitsch barely withstood a tragicomedy fabric that is truly touching and amusing without being embarrassed. This is partly due to the performances of the actors, the thirty-three years old Omar Sy, who gives Driss as a clown with the heart in the right place [ ... ] The fact that this series of basically simple gags works so well, but is also due to the rhythm in which they are presented. This film is all Elegiac alien, the viewer is no time to engage long on the alternating emphatic and parodic moments because the story jumps equal, once even suggests an unexpected hook to eventually end up where we expected it: in a better world. "

Critic Hans -Ulrich Pönack was Intouchables as " matching fun movie for today's problem - time " and the first movie blockbuster of the year 2012: " For the local critics to be stated to have to deal with a great human movie whose emotional impact is fascinating and atmospheric spread with us. For this fourth joint film by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano is a brilliantly successful double bottom Twinkle over a delicious ironic sarcastic clash of cultures. And of course he is also attractive for the successful game of its Starring: On the one hand, François Cluzet, 56, who has worked with such directors as Claude Chabrol, Bertrand Tavernier and Robert Altman and here has its motionless master appearance. Omitted On the other hand, the 31 -year-old Omar Sy as a loose macho type Driss, the herauspellt so wonderfully effortless cool the boy and to the sounds of Earth, Wind & Fire absteppt. "

The world -author Matthias Wulff called Intouchables as " pretty interesting movie," what lies great success in part to his " over any comprehensible measure ", on the other hand from his unusual humor resultiere, which provides " was rather unusual, because you over disabled just does not make any jokes or the people who make jokes about disabled people, usually are repulsive [ ... ] the film is so cheerful and entertaining, he is too nice in fact to be true that you can necessarily him as too shallow, could pass judgment on kitsch, but it is based on a true story [ ... ] as can be read in the Wall Street Journal, the American movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has bought the rights for the remake. But it will hardly be achievable for him to meet such a charming and life-affirming story from the deepest heart yet. "

Fritz Göttler of the Süddeutsche Zeitung judged moderate. He found that the up keep on a proven formula: " cinema, which was to be exuberant, crazy guys doing crazy things [ ... ] François Cluzet is great as Philippe, pathos and dignified, until he forfeited his depression, Omar sy makes it look pretty easy but with his lessons into life, a catalog of Draufgängertums. In the end, lack the proper beinahtragische drop height, without the comedy can not work, that is, ' Intouchables ' works as a metaphor, but not fully as a movie. "

Soundtrack

Awards

• 2011: TIFF Award in the " Best Actor " (François Cluzet, Omar Sy) and "Best Picture" (Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix)
• 2012: César in the category " Best Actor " ( Omar Sy)
• 2012: David di Donatello Award in the category "Best European Film "
• 2012: DIVA Audience Award in the category " Most successful movie 2012"
• 2012: Étoile d'Or in the category " Best Male Newcomer "
• 2012: Florida Film Critics Circle Award in the category " Best Foreign Language Film "
• 2012: Golden Trailer Award in the category " Best Foreign Language Comedy Trailer"
• 2012: Phoenix Film Critics Society Award in the category " Best Foreign Language Film "
• 2012: Prix Lumière in the category " Best Actor " ( Omar Sy)
• 2012: Sarajevo Film Festival Audience Award in the category " Best Feature Film "
• 2012: Satellite Award in the category " Best Foreign Film "
• 2012: Southeastern Film Critics Association Award in the category " Best Foreign Film "
• 2012: Wisconsin Film Festival Audience Award in the category "Best Picture"
• 2013: Český lev in the category " Best Foreign Film "
• 2013: Golden Screen ( with star )
• 2013: Goya in the category " Best European film"
• 2013: Image Award in the category "Best International Film "
• 2013: Virtuoso Award ( Omar Sy)
• 2013: German hearing film price