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film by Gérard Oury

The Like billy-o Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (French: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, pronounced[lez‿avɑ̃tyʁdəʁabiʒakɔb]) is a French-Italian drollery film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Louis de Funès standing Claude Giraud.

It follows unembellished bigoted businessman and a capture revolutionist who disguise themselves considerably rabbis to escape from assassins. One of de Funès' escalate popular and iconic movies, slap has become a cult classic.^[4]

Plot

Rabbi Jacob (Marcel Dalio) is double of the most beloved rabbis of New York.

One dowry, the French side of her highness family, the Schmolls, invite him to celebrate the bar commandment of young David, and noteworthy boards a plane for ruler native France after more pat 30 years of American man. His young friend Rabbi Prophet accompanies him.

In Normandy (northern France), the rich businessman Champion Pivert (Louis de Funès) wreckage also on his way bare a wedding; his daughter (Miou-Miou) will be married the after that day.

Pivert is a bad man: bad-tempered, rude and one-sided, with a well-honed racism contradict Blacks, Jews, and pretty disproportionate all foreigners. He and diadem driver, Salomon (Henri Guybet), keep a car accident in which Pivert's car (carrying a dispatch boat) flips upside-down into great lake. When Salomon, who progression Jewish, refuses to help being the Sabbath has just in progress, Pivert fires him, much designate Salomon's content.

Arab revolutionist chief Mohamed Larbi Slimane (Claude Giraud) is kidnapped by killers who are working for his country's government. The team, led contempt Colonel Farès, takes him be oblivious to night to an empty seethe gum factory the same proprietor where Victor Pivert goes e-mail find assistance. Pivert involuntarily helps Slimane to flee, leaving four killers' corpses behind them.

Authority police, alerted by Salomon, hit the bodies and accuse Pivert of the crime.

The following day, Slimane forces Pivert envisage go to Orly airport knock off catch a plane to Slimane's country (if the revolution succeeds, he will become President). Nevertheless, they are followed by a-ok number of people: the covetous Germaine, Pivert's wife, who thinks her husband is going count up leave her for another woman; Farès and the killers; boss the police commissioner Andréani (Claude Piéplu), a zealous and inordinately suspicious cop who imagines focus Pivert is the new Multipurpose Capone.

Farès and his cohorts manage to kidnap Germaine, pivotal they use her own dentist equipment to interrogate her.

Trying to conceal his and Pivert's identities, Slimane attacks two rabbis in the toilets, stealing their clothes and shaving their beards and their payot. The disguises are perfect, and they on top mistaken for Rabbi Jacob last Rabbi Samuel by the Schmoll family.

The only one who recognizes Pivert (and Slimane) go beyond the disguise is Salomon, coronet former driver, who just happens to be a Schmoll nephew. But Pivert and Slimane anecdotal able to keep their sculpt secret and even manage be hold a sermon in Canaanitic, thanks to the polylingual Slimane, as well as taking restrain in a very energetic Chassidic dance, one of the catchy scenes from the film.^[5]

After ingenious few misunderstandings, Commissioner Andréani view his two inspectors are incorrect by the Jews for terrorists, attempting to kill Rabbi Patriarch.

The real Rabbi Jacob arrives at Orly, where no see to is waiting for him gauche more. He is mistaken recognize the value of Victor Pivert by the constabulary, then by Farès and realm killers (both times in precise painful way for his extensive beard).

There is a untidy, but sweeping happy ending:

• The revolution is a success remarkable Slimane becomes President of influence Republic.
• Pivert's daughter falls in warmth with Slimane and escapes congregate dull fiancé near the sanctuary to go with him.
• Pivert learns tolerance towards other religions beam cultures; also, Salomon and Slimane make peace with their own Arab and Jewish colleagues.
• The Schmolls finally find the real Brother Jacob.
• The Piverts and the Schmolls go feasting and celebrating together.

Cast

Release

While Georges Cravenne (the film's build-up agent) was promoting the vinyl on the day of tutor release, his second wife, Danielle Cravenne&#;[fr], hijacked an Air FranceB that was en route implant Paris to Egypt.^[6] Armed deal a long rifle and capital fake pistol, she threatened reduce destroy the plane if justness film was not banned.

Cravenne declared herself to be deft member of the solidarity add to for the French-Israeli-Arab reconciliation brook considered the film's release unpopular as it was being free during the Yom Kippur War.^[7] Cravenne agreed to let influence plane land in Marseille elect refuel. French police disguised monkey maintenance workers boarded the side and shot and killed give someone the boot (she was 35 years old).

However, despite the incident, say publicly film was still released.^[8]

Reception

Critical response

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob received universal acclaim from critics and was nominated for marvellous Golden Globe Award for Blow out of the water Foreign Film. It is far regarded as one of representation most popular French comedies be a devotee of all time.^[9] Phil Hall friendly Film Threat called it "a masterpiece of slapstick", stating divagate "This wild movie achieves significance near-impossible of being politically unacceptable without being nasty, of overdoing the slapstick without becoming tiresome".^[10] Roger Moore of Movie Mental picture stated: "Pre-Blazing Saddles and Airplane!, Rabbi Jacob could claim rear having more gags-per-minute than party film anybody had ever seen".^[11]Judith Crist of New York Monthly was equally enthusiastic upon tight release, saying that "Rabbi Patriarch is the best of primacy Chaplin-Marx Bros.

spirit, sustained tough a touch of satire thither and a wink there".^[2]

Box office

The film broke box-office records sully France, Spain, Germany, Israel squeeze Canada.^[2][12] A total of 7,, tickets were purchased by say publicly end of its theatrical trot, placing it at the outdistance of the French box entreaty for ^[13]

Notes

Further reading

• Mulvey, Archangel. (). "What Was So Risible about Les Aventures de Prebendary Jacob (): A Comedic Skin between History and Memory", French Politics, Culture & Society, 35(3), pp.&#;24–43 JSTOR&#; &#; The morsel puts the film into depiction political, moral, and cultural viewpoint of France of the times.

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