L'animal / L'as Des As

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Cat No: LARGH022

Release Date: 01 July 2016

Label: Larghetto Music

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 3341348158891

Genres: Soundtracks Classical

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2 Original Soundtracks by Vladimir Cosma: " l'As des As" de GÃ©rard Oury 1982 and " l'Animal" de Claude Zidi 1977 For these large-scale french comedies, Vladimir Cosma has written two scores for symphony orchestra which enhance the jocular role of Jean-Paul Belmondo. The electrifying rhytmic atmosphere of "L'Animal" contrasts with the powerful lyrical theme of "L'As des As", a concertant interplay between orchestra and two pianos.
L'Animal (1977) is an action-comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Raquel Welch. It was distributed in the U.S. by Analysis Film Releasing Corp.
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp. Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday and Claude Chabrol also appear in the film.
L'as des as (The Ace of Aces; alternate English title: The Super Ace) is a 1982 French-German comedy film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by GÃ©rard Oury. In 1916, during the thick of World War I, a German and a French fighter ace by the names of Gunther von Beckman (Hoffman) and Jo Cavalier (Belmondo) manage to drag each other out of the sky. An argument and subsequent fistfight about who is to be whose prisoner is rudely interrupted by an artillery barrage, forcing both to stick together in order to survive. In a humorous side scene, corporal Adolf Hitler (Meisner) is berated by his frustrated First Lieutenant Rosenblum for his clumsiness.
20 years later, Jo and his team of boxers travel to Germany to participate in the Olympic Games in Berlin. On the train Jo meets young Simon Rosenblum (Ferrache), the grandson of aforementioned First Lieutenant Rosenblum and a Jew, and a beautiful reporter named Gaby Delcourt (Pisier), who is to interview Hitler. When his grandfather doesn't show up at the station, Simon asks Jo, whom he idolizes for his WWI days, to accompany him to his grandfather's bookstore. Arriving there, Jo gets into a fight with Gestapo agents who are demolishing the place, and subsequently he is asked by the whole Rosenblum family to hide them. Knowing no other place, he takes them to his team's hotel, which also happens to be Gaby's domicile. Jo begins to flamboyantly flirt with Gaby, who seems to return his affections.
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