Fear in the city
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fear in the city |
| Original title | La grande frousse / La cité de l'indicible peur |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean-Pierre Mocky |
| script | Jean-Pierre Mocky Gérard Klein Raymond Queneau |
| production | Jérôme Goulven |
| music | Gérard Calvi |
| camera | Eugen Schüfftan |
| cut | Marguerite Renoir |
| occupation | |
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Angst in der Stadt is a French detective farce with elements from the 1964 horror film by Jean-Pierre Mocky . His script was based on a novel (1943) by Jean Ray , the plot of which Mocky moved from Scotland to a fictional location in France. The black and white photos by cameraman Eugen Schüfftan were taken in the small medieval town of Salers . When it was first published, the distributor shortened the work and renamed it La grande frousse (literally “The great muffin”); With around 680,000 cinema tickets, the success was moderate. Mocky re-released the film in full length in 1972, under the preferred title of the same as the novel La cité de l'indicible peur ("City of Inexpressible Fear").
action
During his literary research into wall graffiti in police stations, the aestheticist Triquet unintentionally convicts the urgently wanted counterfeiter Mickie. For this, and favored by family ties (he is the nephew of the police chief), he is immediately appointed inspector. That Mickie's guillotination fails makes the philanthropist much easier. Because the criminal piles up on the occasion, Triquet and Inspector Virgus are given the task of tracking him down. For Triquet personally, the main thing is to prevent Mickie from further crimes in order to save him from the guillotine.
The two inspectors are searching for places where the wanted person was previously. While Virgus takes over another place, Triquet goes to a small town where he poses as a hunter. The discovery of a flower confirms that he is in the right place. The residents behave strangely, are silent and draw the newcomer's attention to strange rules that must be followed. Franqui talks to a scythe doll and watches the scene through binoculars; the pharmacist seems to be hiding something; the gendarme, fearful and vain at the same time, often combs his or her hair; the butcher is cheerful and has no friends; very many of the residents are afraid of the "beast", of which old legends tell and which has recently been sighted several times. To continue his search, Triquet visits the mayor, who tries to disguise his almighty position in the village with a facade of friendliness. Triquet feels compelled to confide in the gendarme that he is a professional colleague. Although he asks him to keep it to himself, the whole place soon knows. Franqui is found dead and someone claims to have seen the beast near him. Douve, the mayor's secretary, incites people to hunt the beast. It actually succeeds in getting hold of it: it is the butcher in disguise who wanted to attract the attention of a village beauty. In the prison cell he is now safe from the lynching of the citizens. Because Triquet has still not caught the fugitive, he announces that he will search all the attics and cellars. The pharmacist takes his own life - he has kept his allegedly missing wife, whom he murdered, in the cellar. The mayor, his young colleague Livina and Douve let a car roll towards Triquet, but the inspector escapes the attack. Douve believes he can no longer hide the counterfeit and wants to surrender, but someone shoots him. The mayor is now ready to unpack, but bullets knock him down too. After a chase, Triquet arrests the murderer: It's Livina. She justifies herself, saying that the people killed were much worse criminals, for example the mayor took away her innocence. Inspector Virgus shows up with Mickie, whom he was able to catch in another town. Horrified at the thought of seeing Livina on the scaffold, Triquet keeps his revelations to himself and goes off with Virgus.
Locations
The shooting locations were the French Sédaiges Castle, Anjony Castle , the village of Salers and the Franstudio in Saint-Maurice .
Sédaiges Castle
Anjony Castle
Location in Salers
rating
In the Guide des films (2005) it is said that the “stirring illumination” of Schüfftan and the medieval setting conveyed the fantastic side of the story in a perfect way. The comedy screeches with black humor, keeps you breathless and offers an “amazing gallery of distinguished personalities, one more depraved than the other”.
Web links
- Fear in the city in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fear in the city in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Jean-Pierre Mocky's official website
- ↑ a b Claude Bouniq-Mercier: Cité de l'indicible peur (La) / La grande frousse . In: Jean Tulard (Ed.): Guide des films . Laffont, Paris 2005. ISBN 2-221-10451-X , Volume 1, A – E, p. 681
- ↑ IMDb locations
