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Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
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1999 film directed by Claude Zidi
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*Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar*, also titled *Astérix et Obélix contre César* and *Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar*, is a 1999 French, German, and Italian comedy and adventure film. Directed by Claude Zidi, the movie is based on the work of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. The screenplay was written by Claude Zidi, Thomas Gilou, and Gérard Lauzier. Production was led by Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Claude Berri, and Thomas Langmann, with music composed by Jean and Roland Romanelli. The film was shot in La Ferté-Alais and distributed by Sandrew Metronome, Central Partnership, and Shaw Organisation.
The movie has a runtime of 105 minutes according to one source, while others list it as 109 minutes. It was released in 1999, with specific dates including February 3, March 11, March 18, and March 25. The film holds a rating of 6.0 on IMDb based on 48,484 votes, and a vote average of 6 on TMDb with 2,043 votes. Its budget was 48,500,000, and it generated revenue of 101,644,060. The tagline for the film is "The Gauls are revolting!" It is followed by *Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra*.
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6.0Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
Cast
- Christian Clavier as Astérix
- Gérard Depardieu as Obélix
- Roberto Benigni as Lucius Detritus
- Michel Galabru as Abraracourcix
- Claude Piéplu as Panoramix
- Daniel Prévost as Prolix
Themes
- rome, italy
- roman empire
- fight
- resistance
- sinti and romanies
- roman
- fistfight
- ancient rome
- based on comic
- 1st century
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Claude Zidi
- Written by
- Gérard Lauzier
- Based on
- Asterix , by René Goscinny Albert Uderzo
- Produced by
- Vittorio Cecchi Gori Claude Berri
- Starring
- Christian Clavier Gérard Depardieu Roberto Benigni Claude Piéplu Gottfried John
- Cinematography
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Edited by
- Hervé de Luze Nicole Saunier
- Music by
- Jean-Jacques Goldman Roland Romanelli
- Production companies
- Katharina, Renn Productions , TF1 Fims Production , Bavaria Film, Bavaria Entertainment, Melampo Cinematografica
- Distributed by
- AMLF
- Release dates
- 3 February 1999 ( 1999-02-03 ) (Belgium) 3 February 1999 ( 1999-02-03 ) (France)
- Running time
- 109 minutes
- Countries
- France, Italy, Germany
- Languages
- French, German
- Budget
- FFR 275 million ($48.5 million)
- Box office
- $101.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- German
- Followed by
- Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
- Director
- Claude Zidi
- Screenwriter
- Gérard Lauzier
- Composer
- Roland Romanelli
- Producer
- Thomas Langmann
- Production company
- Bavaria Film
- Cinematographer
- Tony Pierce-Roberts
- Filming location
- La Ferté-Alais
- Duration
- 105
- FilmAffinity ID
- 855268
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Asterix.svg
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- title
- Astérix et Obélix contre César
- Commons category
- Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- publication date
- 2002-08-16
- after a work by
- Albert Uderzo
- make-up artist
- Giannetto De Rossi
- form of creative work
- feature film
- capital cost
- 274620000
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Encyclopedic overview
Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar (French: Astérix & Obélix contre César) is a 1999 fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, the first installment in the Asterix film series based on Goscinny and Uderzo's Astérix comics. The film combines plots of several Astérix stories, mostly Asterix the Gaul (Getafix's abduction), Asterix and the Soothsayer, Asterix and the Goths (the Druid conference), Asterix the Legionary (Obelix becoming smitten with Panacea) and Asterix the Gladiator (the characters fighting in the circus) but jokes and references from many other albums abound, including a humorous exchange between Caesar and Brutus taken from Asterix and Cleopatra, and the villain Lucius Detritus is based on Tullius Detritus, the main antagonist of Asterix and the Roman Agent (known as Tortuous Convolvulus in the English translation of the comic).
At the time of its release, the film was the most expensive production in French cinema of all time, making it the most expensive production in France for the twentieth century. It was a box-office success and would be followed by a sequel, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, released in 2002.
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