Brutal city

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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

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

Individual evidence

  1. Cholewa / Thurau: The Terror directs. 2008², p. 34, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
  2. ^ J. Zimmer in Saison '71 , quoted from Poppi / Percorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano.
  3. Brutal City. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 515/1970.
  5. ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I film vol. 4, vol. 1 A / L. Gremese 1996, pp. 180/181