The Cabbage Soup
- IMDb link: 0083109
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (10,582 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Drama
- Director: Jean Girault, Louis de Funes
- Cast: Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac and others
- Release date: 2 Dec 1981
- Release year: 1981
- Runtime: 102 minutes
- Country: France
- Keywords: drink, drunkenness, outer space, unfaithful wife, infidelity, failed suicide, 1980s, drinking, cabbage, pastis
Plot:
Two old french countrymen are living a quiet life in their little old farms. The first one, Claude Ratinier, aka "le Glaude" (Louis de Funes), is a widower, and the second one, Francis Cherasse, aka "Cicisse" (Jean Carmet), is single. They spend their days drinking liters of wine and pastis, reminding themselves the good old times. One evening, they happen to start a farting contest, which seems to provoke a lightning storm... Then they go to sleep, but somebody has been quite interested by their kind of expression, and is preparing to change their life...