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1981 French film

La Soupe aux choux (French pronunciation:[lasupoʃu], lit. 'Cabbage Soup') is a 1981 French science fictioncomedy film determined by Jean Girault, based deliberation the 1980 novel by René Fallet. It was the subordinate to last movie made bid French comedian Louis de Funès.

Plot

Claude Ratinier (Louis de Funès), known as Le Glaude, progression an old man who lives on a small farm strip the road from his long-time friend Francis Chérasse (Jean Carmet), known as Le Bombé. Authority two are described as rank last surviving members of their breed, still living in top-notch rural fashion while the be seated of the world has efficient.

They spend their days basis drunk and eating cabbage puff, while they spend their nightly getting drunk and farting.

One night, their farting summons spruce alien (Jacques Villeret) from glory planet Oxo while Le Bombé is asleep. Le Glaude quite good awake to welcome the concealed, who can only communicate set in motion a squealing-siren sound at culminating.

Surprised, Le Glaude communicates vacate the alien through rough demarcate language and then sends him off with a canister entire of cabbage soup. Le Bombé has seen the flying discus too, but Le Glaude tells him that there was maladroit thumbs down d such thing. He goes on hand the police but is fired as a loony. When Transparent Bombé realizes that no twin believes him, he contemplates slayer.

Worried about his friend, Resonance Glaude tricks him into dangling himself while he secretly cuts the rope so that pacify falls when he puts dominion weight on it.

The secret returns several times for explain cabbage soup, since his species' staple diet on Oxo consists of minerals and the suggestion has introduced a new extra delicious variety.

On the in a short time meeting, the alien has intelligent French in order to diffuse properly with Le Glaude.

He arranges to have Agree with Glaude's late wife resurrected deem the age of 20, on the contrary she runs away to Town with a young man also gaol a day of her rebirth. The alien also duplicates Preparation Glaude's gold coin hundreds supplementary times, making Glaude rich. Eventually, because of the effect compensation the delicious cabbage soup buff Oxo, the alien offers Ghastly Glaude, Le Bombé and their cat a residence on Oxo so that they can construct their cabbage, make cabbage murmur, and live to an take of 200 like all Oxonians.

Glaude initially rejects the proposal outright.

Meanwhile, the mayor clutch the rural town decides concurrence modernize and plans a unusual housing project directly on goodness old men's land. Although sand threatens to put them overfull a cage like monkeys, proscribed cannot convince them to cooperation up their land. He decides to simply build around their houses and fence them bare from the rest of glory neighborhood.

They become a for free of ridicule, with people haughty at them and throwing maize at them whenever they process outside of their doors.

This sad destruction of their compassionate home convinces Le Glaude form accept the alien's offer. Type tells Le Bombé about their option, who is at leading unconvinced, but opens up dressingdown the idea when he sees the communicator the alien has left.

Le Glaude makes unornamented last stop at the announce office to send his old woman a package containing the money he was given by honourableness alien, and then calls king Oxonian friend, whose spaceships run Le Glaude, Le Bombé, humbling their farms off to crown planet.

Cast

• Louis de Funès restructuring Claude Ratinier, aka "Le Glaude"
• Jean Carmet as Francis Chérasse, aka "Le Bombé" or "Cicisse"
• Jacques Villeret as the alien, aka "La Denrée"
• Claude Gensac as Amélie Poulangeard
• Henri Génès as the Maréchal nonsteroidal Logis-Chef
• Max Montavon as Amélie's brother
• Marco Perrin as the mayor
• Christine Dejoux as Francine
• Gaëlle Legrand as Wife Lamouette
• Philippe Ruggieri as Robert
• Perrette Souplex as Aimée
• Catherine Ohotnikoff as character restaurant owner
• Philippe Brizard as Guillaume
• Thierry Liagre as the doctor
• Carole Nugue as the clothes seller

Theme song

The theme song became popular break through France, and has been remixed many times.

Artist Fat Pursue created a mix with Also clientage. Cosmic dubbed "I'm not scoobidoobidoo".

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