La Soupe aux choux is a 1981 French comedy directed by Jean Girault, starring Louis de Funès and Jean Carmet as two ageing farmers whose cabbage soup attracts an alien to their village. Composer Raymond Lefèvre gave the film its distinctive electronic theme, built around synthesizer sounds that matched the visitor and his spacecraft. In France the cue became inseparable from the movie's cult reputation, reappearing in television reruns, ringtones, remixes and online edits. Its lasting appeal comes from that mix of rural comedy, early eighties science fiction and instantly recognisable melody.