Bluff (1976)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The big bluff |
| Original title | Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergio Corbucci |
| script |
Arnold Maury Massimo De Rita |
| production | Capital Films |
| music | Lelio Luttazzi |
| camera | Marcello Gatti |
| cut | Eugenio Alabiso |
| occupation | |
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Bluff (Bluff storia di truffe e di imbroglioni) is a gangster persona by Sergio Corbucci from 1976. Alternative titles are The Bluffer and Two great bugs boil off and Two professionals strike . The story is about two dissimilar con artists, played by Adriano Celentano , who won the David di Donatello Best Actor for his performance , and Anthony Quinn , who perform coups together.
action
In a French prison in the 1930s. Prisoner Philippe Bang provokes one of the guards to move him to another prison. When Bang tries to escape from the prison train on the way, he is taken by surprise by fellow inmate Felix, who is able to escape in his place. On the run, Felix is picked up by henchmen who, on behalf of the extremely wealthy gang leader Duke Bang, were supposed to help escape and mistook him for Felix.
Duke realizes immediately that the man is not her ex-lover Bang. When Felix escapes the gang, he meets a young woman, Charlotte, with whom he falls in love without realizing that it is Bang's daughter. In a hotel room she lures him into bed and pulls a bottle of champagne over his head. Back in the hands of the gangsters, he is faced with the choice of either passing away prematurely or breaking into prison again to free Bang. Felix arrives disguised as a pastor in prison, where he creates confusion with explosives and gets back outside via a tunnel with Bang. He initially claims not to be Bang, but pretends that he looks like him, and so the two want to outsmart Duke and share Felix's reward. Nothing goes as planned during the handover, but Felix and Bang want to continue working together. After some major trickery, Felix finds out that his new partner is not only the real Bang, but also Charlotte's father. With a boggy meadow that he bought with the crooked money, Bang wants to commit a large-scale fraud on Duke, who has a passion for archeology. With the help of some friends of Bang and Charlotte and numerous deception maneuvers, the three manage to carry out their plan and take a large sum of money from Duke. At the last minute, they can escape her on a small plane.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , the comedy was a "lame parody of gangster films, which - despite the handsome actors - largely lacks atmosphere, humor and whistle."
The Zeit film critic Bodo Fründt found that Corbucci had “turned the film down quite listlessly”, thereby stretching his “meager gags” in order to “stifle them so thoroughly” in repetitions, “that even the actors were obviously bored ".
Web links
- Bluff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bluff in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bluff. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Bodo Fründt: Mediocre . In: The time . No. 36/1976 , August 27, 1976, Critique and Information. Film tips, p. 40 .