La Cage aux Folles (film)

Infobox Film
name = La Cage aux Folles


image_size = 150px
caption = French poster
director = Édouard Molinaro
starring = Ugo Tognazzi
Michel Serrault
released = France 25 October, 1978
USA 30 March, 1979
Australia 1 March, 1980
runtime = 110 mins
country = FRA
ITA
language = French
gross = US$20.4 million
imdb_id = 0077288

"La Cage aux Folles" (tr. "The Cage of Queens" or "The Birdcage", lit. "The Cage of Crazy Women" or "The Bird Cage") is a 1978 film adaptation of the 1973 play by Jean Poiret. It was directed by Édouard Molinaro. Like the play, the film tells the story of a gay couple - Renato, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and Albin, his star attraction - and the adventures that ensue when Renato's son brings home his fiance's ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

The film (subtitled "Birds of a Feather" on the US poster) won over audiences with its sight gags, uproarious complications, and a tender and touching conclusion. It ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, as well as theatres throughout the country in both urban and rural areas. For years it remained the most successful foreign film to be released in the United States.Fact|date=February 2007

The film score was composed by Ennio Morricone.

Cast

The film stars Michel Serrault as Albin, in the role he had created in the original stage production.

* Ugo Tognazzi - Renato Baldi
* Michel Serrault - Albin Mougeotte/'Zaza Napoli'
* Claire Maurier - Simone
* Rémi Laurent - Laurent Baldi
* Carmen Scarpitta - Louise Charrier
* Benny Luke - Jacob
* Luisa Maneri - Andrea Charrier
* Michel Galabru - Simon Charrier

equels and remake

The film was followed by two sequels: "Cage aux folles II" (1980), also directed by Édouard Molinaro, and "La Cage aux folles 3 - 'Elles' se marient" (1985), directed by Georges Lautner.

A 1983 Broadway musical called "La Cage aux Folles" based on the play and the film was also successful.

In 1996, an American remake entitled "The Birdcage", directed by Mike Nichols, was released, relocated to South Beach, Miami, and starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

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title=Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film
years=1980
before="Autumn Sonata"
after="Tess"