	LES TEMPS SONT DURS POUR LES VAMPIRES

Les temps sont durs pour les vampires (original title: Tempi duri per i vampiri) is a Franco-Italian fantasy comedy directed by Steno, released in 1959, with Renato Rascel, Sylva Koscina and Christopher Lee.

Personal comments : Louis de Funès is not marked in the credits, he does not appears of the film but, he doubles the voice of a man on the beach :

He plays :
- to 1 hour, 7 minutes and 8 seconds ; he says : '' qui ta fait ça ? » « alors il y a un autre homme ? »

♦ Synopsis :

En Italie, Le Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi décide de transformer son château en hotel. Malheureusement son aïeul, Le Baron Roderico da Frankurten qui ce trouve être un vampire va au château et mord Osvaldo. Il est dorénavant dangereux pour les clients de passer une nuit dans cet établissement.

♦ Specification sheet :

Exit Italy : the 28 october 1959 / Exit French the 8 august 1962
Duration : 96 minutes
Exit in VHS but always unpublished in DVD

♦ Distribution :

Renato Rascel (VF : Roger Carel): Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi
Christopher Lee (VF : Michel Piccoli): Baron Roderico da Frankurten
Sylva Koscina (VF : Michèle Montel): Carla
Antje Geerk (VF : Jany Clair): Liliane
Lia Zoppelli (VF : Sylvie Deniau): Letizia
Rik Van Nutter (VF : Jean-Pierre Duclos): Victor, the singer
Suzanne Loret:Susan, blonde american tourist
Kai Fischer: Kai, redhead american tourist
Carl Wery (VF : Serge Nadaud): Hotel manager
Franco Scandurra : Professor Striker
Angelo zanolli: Paolo, the fisrt playboy
Franco Giacobini (VF : Jacques Dynam): The second playboy
Antonio Mambretti (VF : Jean-Paul Moulinot): Alberto Fortini
Federico Collino: Visnaghi
Leonardo Porzio (VF : Hubert Noel): The husband of Gwendoline

♦ Analysis :

Surrounded by his recent success in Le Cauchemar de Dracula (1958), British actor Christopher Lee chooses Italy to take on the role of vampire for the first time, which made him world famous. His choice is ironically based on a comedy where, far from caricaturing his own performance on behalf of the Hammer, he paradoxically contributes to the parody by playing his character with the utmost seriousness. He will adopt exactly the same attitude, fifteen years later, in another vampiric comedy with a similar canvas: Dracula father and son (1976) by Edouard Molinaro.

Here, the comic part of the film rests, ultimately, almost exclusively on the outrageous performance of the Italian comedian Renato Rascel, very comfortable in the role of the weakened vampire.

♦ Dubbing of the film :