Asterix and Obelix: Pause for 35 minutes and 5 seconds and take a good look at this map of Middle Kingdom

Tonight, Canal+ is airing Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, the latest episode of two famous Gallic cinematic adventures created by Albert Uderzo and René Goskin, and here’s a little detail you might have missed.

Remember that the plot is based on a coup d’état instigated by the criminal Deng Qin Qin, which sees the Empress of China imprisoned. Princess Fu Yo, the only daughter of the empress, escapes to the cage accompanied by her bodyguard and the Phoenician merchant Grindemaise to seek help from Asterix and Obelix, whose reputations are well established. But in the shadows Caesar is also going to take advantage of the situation…

Asterix is ​​played for the first time by Guillaume Canet, and Obelix is ​​played by Gilles Lelouch – who also took advice from previous Obelix Gerard Depardieu. Cleopatra is played by Marion Cotillard, Foo Yoo Julie Chen, Grindemaise Jonathan Cohen and César Vincent Cassel.

This is also the scene of the Roman Emperor, which contains a small error. If you pause the shot at exactly 35 minutes and 5 seconds into the movie, you will see a map of the Roman Empire and the known world. The cities and countries are all listed in French, except for Moscow, which inexplicably appears… in English!

Thus, we can see “Moscow” written on the map, which contrasts with the rest of its inscriptions. Nothing major, but a small discrepancy that will please fans of this kind of hidden detail.

China was never used as an album of Asterix comics, which at least took its characters on a journey to Spain, Egypt, Belgium, Brittany (UK), Mesopotamia or India.A great crossing)!

Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom pulled in 4.62 million gals in theaters, besting only Asterix and Obelix: His Majesty at the box office, before finding an international audience on the Netflix platform.