Asterix and Cleopatra (film)
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Asterix and Cleopatra | |
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Astérix et Cléopâtre | |
Directed by | René Goscinny Albert Uderzo |
Screenplay by | Eddie Lateste Jos Marissen Pierre Tchernia |
Based on | Asterix and Cleopatra by René Goscinny Albert Uderzo |
Produced by | Raymond Leblanc |
Starring | Roger Carel Jacques Morel Micheline Dax Pierre Tornade Lucien Raimbourg |
Narrated by | Bernard Lavalette |
Cinematography | Georges Lapeyronnie Francois Léonard Jean Midre |
Edited by | Jacques Marchel László Molnár |
Music by | Gérard Calvi |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | Pathé La Société des Films Sirius Gaumont Film Company |
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Running time | 72 minutes |
Countries | France Belgium |
Language | French |
Asterix and Cleopatra (
Asterix and Cleopatra is practically a musical, featuring three individual song sequences and a more varied score than the earlier film. Elements of satire and surreal humour (such as Cleopatra's singing lion and the engraving of Santa Claus on the pyramid wall) are prominent throughout.
Plot
After a heated argument with
Panoramix agrees to return to Egypt with Numerobis, while
Amonbofis raises tensions amongst the construction workers by convincing them that they are being exploited by Numerobis and encourages them to strike. To win them over and enhance their productivity, Panoramix gives the workers his magic potion which enables them to continue effortlessly with the construction of the palace. Panoramix refuses to give any to Obelix, much to his disgruntlement. Building progress becomes so rapid that the labourers exhaust their supplies of stone; Amonbofis has bribed the supplier to dump the subsequent shipment into the
Cleopatra gloats over the likelihood of winning her bet to Caesar, who fears he will lose face with her should she get the better of him and instructs his spy to infiltrate the building site. Learning that the Gauls and their magic potion are involved, Caesar orders his three mercenaries, brothers, to kidnap Panoramix and knock over the cauldron for which they will receive a bag of gold. However, the oldest brother tells the other two to capture Panoramix while he knocks over the potion. While they tie up and gag Panoramix the mercenary drinks the potion and knocks over the cauldron, before overpowering his brothers and taking Panoramix to Caesar. The two mercenaries are caught by Asterix and Obelix, who learn of what has happened to Panoramix. The Mercenary returns to Caesar and is given the gold while Panoramix is imprisoned. However, he is then caught by Asterix and Obelix who learn where Panoramix is. The Mercenary is thrown away and his brothers take him away to have 'a word' with him. Asterix and Obelix promptly free Panoramix. In desperation, Caesar holds the construction site under siege and bombards the unfinished palace with boulders. Cleopatra intervenes after Asterix brings a message to her, forcing Caesar to lift the siege and despite the damage, the palace is completed on schedule. Numerobis is honoured and the Gauls are escorted home aboard Cleopatra's luxury ship, much to the displeasure of the sacred crocodiles.
Cast
Character | Original | English | German |
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Asterix | Roger Carel | Lee Payant[2] | Hans Hessling |
Caesar's Spy | George Keros | Unknown | |
Dogmatix | Roger Carel |
Additional Voices
- Original: Maurice Chevit, Gérard Darrieu, Claude Dasset, Pierre Garin, Olivier Hussenot
- English: Lyle Joyce, Milt Mezzrow
Original
- Jacques Morel - Obélix
- Jacques Balutin - Tournevis
- Jacques Bodoin - Lion
- Jacques Jouanneau - Assurancetourix
- Bernard Lavalette - Le narrateur, Amonbofis
- Rodolphe Marcilly - Voix additionnelles
- Joël Noël - Voix additionnelles
- Jean Parédès - Jules César
- Alfred Personne - Voix additionnelles
- Lucien Raimbourg - Panoramix
- Eddy Rasimi - Voix additionnelles
- Pierre Tornade - Numérobis, Abraracourcix, Un mercenaire
- Pierre Trabaud - Barbe-Rouge, Tumehéris
- Micheline Dax - Cléopâtre
- Uncredited
- René Goscinny - Le commentateur
English
- Hal Brav[2] - Obelix
- John Primm[2] - Getafix
- Anthony Stuart[2] - Julius Caesar
- Alexandre Klimenko - Krukhut
- Edward Marcus[2] - Centurion Operachorus
- Jean Fontaine - Artifis
- George Birt[2] - Edifis
- Lyle Joyce - Mercenary #1
- Yves Brainville[2] - Vitalstatistix
- François Valorbe - Additional Voices
- Michael Brown - Additional Voices
- Derry Hall - Additional Voices
- Patrick O'Hara - Additional Voices
- Bruce Johansen- Additional Voices
- James Shuman - Additional Voices
- John Rounds - Additional Voices
- Colin Drake - Additional Voices
- Arch Taylor[2] - Redbeard
- Steve Waring - Additional Voices
- Ginger Hall[2] - Cleopatra
- Paula D'Alba - Additional Voices
German
- Edgar Ott - Obelix
- Klaus W. Krause - Miraculix
- Walter Bluhm - Numerobis
- Martin Hirthe - Pyradonis
- Klaus Miedel - Schraubziris
- Siegfried Schürenberg - Julius Cäsar
- Ursula Herwig - Kleopatra
- Reinhold Brandes - Zusätzliche Stimmen
- Joachim Cadenbach - Erzähler
- Erich Fiedler - Vorkoster
- Heinz Giese - Zenturio Chorus
- Gerd Martienzen - Söldner #1
- Franz Nicklisch - Der Rote Korsar
- Ingo Osterloh - Ausrufer beim Bad #3
- Gerd Prager - Asynchroner Ägypter im Vorspann, Dromedar
- Peter Schiff - Wächter
- Jochen Schröder - Steinbruch-Aufseher, Söldner #3
- Günther Schwerkolt - Zusätzliche Stimmen
- Ingeborg Wellmann - Papagei
- Uncredited
- Chryssoula Diavati - Zusätzliche Stimmen
- Toni Herbert - Söldner #2
- Heinz Palm - Diener von Cäsar
- Randolf Kronberg - Ausrufer beim Bad #2
- Michael Chevalier - Abstosis
- Randolf Kronberg - Lustloser Arbeiter
Reception
In the United Kingdom, the film was watched by 600,000 viewers on television in 2004, making it the year's second most-watched European-language film on television.[3]
See also
- Gerard Depardieu, Monica Bellucci, and Christian Clavier
- Cleopatra VII and her father Ptolemy XII Auletes
References
- ^ imdb
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Asterix and Cleopatra Cast". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook: Annual Review 2004/05" (PDF). UK Film Council. p. 74. Retrieved 21 April 2022 – via British Film Institute.
External links
- AsterixNZ entry
- Astérix et Cléopâtre at IMDb