Brutal city
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Brutal city |
| Original title | Città violenta |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sergio Sollima |
| script |
Sauro Scavolini Gianfranco Callegarich Lina Wertmüller Sergio Sollima |
| music | Ennio Morricone |
| camera | Aldo Tonti |
| cut | Nino Baragli |
| occupation | |
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Brutal City (original title: Città violenta ) is a 1970 crime film shot by Sergio Sollima in Italian-French co-production. The film opened in German-speaking countries on November 26, 1970.
action
Jeff Heston, a highly specialized killer, survived an attack by his client Jerry Coogan. He discovers that his wife, Vanessa, whom he loves, was having a relationship with Coogan, but is arrested. After two years in prison, he put the plan he had forged there into action: he kills those who betrayed him, above all Coogan, and only spares Vanessa, who is now the wife of the New Orleans gang boss Al Weber. Al blackmailed Jeff for having evidence of his responsibility for Coogan's death and forced him to work for himself. Vanessa helps Jeff eliminate Al, but plays on her own account as she is allied with his attorney Steve and only uses Jeff. Jeff flees to Africa and returns after two years to kill Vanessa too. He succeeds before he is shot by a police officer.
criticism
“To claim that the film is exciting is a slight understatement,” says genre expert Karsten Thurau, who praises Bronson's brilliant portrayal of a not “callous killer in a wake of violence, passion and destruction”, while his French colleague, director Sollima, emphasizes “ sets the tone from the first images: aggressiveness, ability, well-known, well-cast actors, nervous editing, balance between violent and lyrical images ”. The lexicon of international film differentiated: “A theatrically remarkable gangster film, which in the attempt to describe the individualistic outsider as a norm-breaker even in the criminal, hierarchically structured living space, fails because of its brutal action.” The Protestant film observer judges more negatively : “Scary -beautiful and too lacquered killer ballad. The writing team avoided comments that were critical of society if the whole film wasn't supposed to be a rejection of 'North America ruled by criminals'. "
Remarks
The film was a box office success, but couldn't match Sollima's previous spaghetti westerns.
Until 2008 the film was indexed and released from the age of 18, after a re-examination it was released in full from the age of 16.
Web links
- Brutal city in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
- Brutal city at cinema (with film images)
- Città violenta with Pollanet Squad
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cholewa / Thurau: The Terror directs. 2008², p. 34, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
- ^ J. Zimmer in Saison '71 , quoted from Poppi / Percorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano.
- ↑ Brutal City. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 515/1970.
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film vol. 4, vol. 1 A / L. Gremese 1996, pp. 180/181