La magnifique DVD 1973 A Káprázatos / Directed by Philippe de Broca / Starring: Jean Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Hans Meyer, Vittorio Capriolis

UPC 5996051840403

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN GERMANY

AUDIO: French 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

RUN TIME: 91 minutes

English Summary:

Le Magnifique (literally The Magnificent; also known as The Man from Acapulco) is a French movie released in 1973, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Le Magnifique is a slapstick spoof of B-series espionage movies and novels.

François Merlin (Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy "Bob Sinclar" (The name of the character is never seen written in the movie, while some people write his name "Saint-Clair" the way it is pronounced in French sounds like Sinclar.)

Christine (Jacqueline Bisset) is a sociology student who lives in Merlin's building and is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination she becomes Tatiana, his paramour, while the pompous and rich publisher of his novels, Pierre Charron (Vittorio Caprioli), doubles as the great villain of the spy novels, the Albanian secret services head Karpov, who in a memorable scene of the film threatens to cut off one of Tatiana's breasts.

Christine is clearly fascinated with the handsome spy Bob Sinclar, an unrealistic and idealized hero, who is the very opposite of his creator: a clumsy, frustrated man who barely makes enough money to get by. However, when she is befriended by the rich and vain publisher who looks down upon his poor hack writer, she realises her mistake, and after a party where he tries to seduce her, she flees him and falls asleep on the landing outside the writer's flat, where he finds her in the morning, clad apparently only in a T-shirt and embraces her for a happy ending. In the final scene, Merlin throws over the balcony his last manuscript, freeing himself from his character and his imaginated life.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Jean-Paul Belmondo : François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar
• Jacqueline Bisset : Christine / Tatiana
• Vittorio Caprioli : Georges Charron / Colonel Karpof
• Monique Tarbès [fr] : Mrs. Berger
• Mario David (actor) [fr] : Policeman
• Raymond Gérôme : General Pontaubert
• Jean Lefebvre : The electrician
• Hans Meyer (actor) : Colonel Collins
• André Weber : The plumber
• Hubert Deschamps : Salesman
• Bernard Musson : Interpreter
• Louis Navarre (actor) [fr] : Interpreter
• Jean-Pierre Rambal [fr] : The Lecturer
• Gaëtan Noël [fr] : Doctor