The Little Bather

  • Louis de Funès: Louis- Phillippe Fourchaume
  • Robert Dhéry: André Castagnier
  • Andréa Parisy: Marie- Béatrice Fourchaume
  • Franco Fabrizi: Marcello Cacciaperotti
  • Colette Brosset: Charlotte Castagnier
  • Michel Galabru: Scipio
  • Jacques Legras: Rev. Henri Castagnier
  • Pierre Dac: Minister
  • Michèle Alexandre: Minister wife
  • Nicole Vervil: Francis Mother
  • Phillipe Dumat: Schaffner Ralston
  • Henri Genes: Bauer
  • Pierre Tornade: Spotlight man
  • Gérard Calvi: Chapel Head

Baldwin dry float, also known as The Little Whirlwind ( original title: Le Petit Baigneur ), is a French comedy film from 1968 with Louis de Funès and Robert Dhéry. The latter also directed. The film opened on 22 May 1968 in the West German cinemas.

Action

The employees of a small boat yard for sports yachts tremble Louis- Phillippe Fourchaume: The CEO is an irascible and choleric fellow who insults his employees frequently loudly. André Castagnier is a somewhat clumsy designer of the company. When his latest design, a naval boat called Indestructible, in the champagne christening leak suggests by a powerful thrown champagne bottle, he gets Fourchaumes anger felt and is summarily dismissed.

As it turns out a little later that Castagnier with the design draft of the sailboat The small water bird (French: " Le Petit Baigneur " ) has won a major award, is good advice. Because Fourchaume needs the sailors and Castagnier to get a large and lucrative job. Of necessity, the choleric must eat humble pie in order to regain its chief designer. Together with his wife Marie -Beatrice makes Fourchaume to Castagnier on who lives in a coastal strip with its almost exclusively red-haired family. Since Fourchaumes short temper Castagniers is known clan, he is very reserved and partly received hostile. In addition, the Italian boat builder Cacciaperotti mixed into the negotiations, the Castagnier also would like to undertake.

As a result, the two industrialists Castagnier try with all his might to pull on their respective sides, partly completed and unrelieved chaos. Finally, however, it is possible Fourchaume to jump over his shadow to be reconciled again with Castagnier and bring him back into the company. Fourchaume and Castagnier lead the shipyard now on as equal partners. In a recent christening capsizes - apparently by Castagniers action - again a ship. Fourchaume suffers a renewed Wutattacke and chases after Castagnier who escapes with his family. Everything is back to normal.

Comments

  • Not only Castagnier actor and director Robert Dhéry worked before in the production of and behind the camera. Gérard Calvi, who has the film music made ​​responsible, playing a small role as the leader of a band.
  • The German version of the film was cut by about five minutes. It lacks two approaches: Firstly, the scene with de Funès and the driverless tractor in the original is a little longer, on the other hand lacks a sequence in which various Fourchaume disfigured by Castagnier images is of itself. He tears off the face of course but cuddle together and acts also as he ecstatically games on an imaginary violin.
  • As usual at that time in some foreign films, two different German dubbed versions were also manufactured in Baldwin Dry Float: a BRD and a DDR version. Le Petit Baigneur is one of the few exceptions in which the GDR synchronization ( here spoke Willi Narloch de Funes ) was also used in West Germany for marketing in cinema and TV. However, the BRD version exists under the title The Little Whirlwind in a Super -8 version. Here is heard de Funès ' Standard Speaker Gerd Martienzen. This version is very rare and therefore sought after by collectors.
  • Fourchaume drives in the movie a Jaguar E. After the end of shooting himself Funès privately bought such a car.

Reviews

" An amusing Louis de Funès - film, which, however, the broken in the early pace can not hold. "

" Strangely film that can not quite keep his initial joke and has some lengths, where you can have fun but somewhat carefree itself. For lovers of French Erzkasperls Louis de Funès. "

Weblink

  • Baldwin, the dry float at the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Baldwin, the dry float in the online movie database
  • Comparison of the average German version versions - French DVD of Baldwin, the dry float at Schnittberichte.com
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