Cash Truck - Death goes with you
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cash Truck - Death goes with you |
| Original title | Le convoyeur |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicolas Boukhrief |
| script | Nicolas Boukhrief Éric Besnard |
| production | Richard Grandpierre |
| music | Nicolas baby |
| camera | Dominique Colin |
| cut | Jacqueline Mariani |
| occupation | |
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Cash Truck - Death goes with you (original title: Le Convoyeur ) is a French thriller by Nicolas Boukhrief from 2004. The German premiere took place at the Fantasy Filmfest on August 13, 2004 in Hamburg.
action
Fear and uncertainty prevail in the money transport company Vigilante. Three of the armored cars have recently been mugged, robbed and the guards killed. The perpetrators were able to escape undetected every time. It always seems to be the same gang. It is clear to the employees that there must be an informant in their company. In addition, the company is to be bought by an American company in a month. However, it is not yet clear who will be taken over and who will lose their job.
In this situation, Alexandre Demarre is hired as a new employee. At first he is watched suspiciously by his colleagues, but when he proves himself heroic in a robbery, he is generally accepted. Even if his living conditions are puzzling and he doesn't really let anyone get close to him.
Alexandre has repeated attacks of epilepsy , which he can hide from his colleagues. In his hotel room he pinned photos and dossiers about the Vigilante employees on a wall. In a flashback, the reason for his actions is finally explained: he and his son involuntarily witnessed a robbery on a company money transport. His son was shot dead in cold blood by a masked perpetrator, and he himself survived the attack. Now he wants to avenge the murder of his son. He also promised his wife that, who has lived in a psychiatric clinic ever since.
When the gang of gangsters want to rob Vigilante's vaults in a final coup, it comes to a big showdown. Alexandre and a few loyal employees manage to overwhelm the criminals. It will be a great slaughter. After the battle, Alexandre, seriously injured, drives to the spot where his son was shot and lies down on the edge of the forest by the road to die.
backgrounds
The French film database Allocine puts the film's budget at EUR 4.3 million.
According to the director, the film is, to the best of his knowledge, the first in the world to shed light on what goes on within a money transport company. That was the attraction for him.
The name of the money transport company was obviously chosen deliberately by the filmmakers. Vigilante refers to a person or a group of people who pursues the enforcement of the law on their own without having received the legal authority to do so from the state. This term therefore refers to the main character.
The images are predominantly held in pale gray and ocher tones. This reduction in color adds to the claustrophobic atmosphere of the film.
Reviews
"The action film of French provenance does not add effects to the current story, but tries to shape the characters."
"The French director and screenwriter Nicolas Boukhrief (" Off Limits - We are the law ") shot this exciting action thriller that is pleasantly different from American productions. For Boukhrief, drawings of people and characters are more important than action and violence, but when violence breaks out, it's tough. "
"Violent in its action scenes, it is still a pretty good French thriller, supported by an excellent script."
Web links
- Cash Truck - The death proceeds to the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cash Truck - Death travels with at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cash Truck - Death drives along in the online film database
- Cash Truck - Death is part of the German dubbing file
- Cash Truck - Death drives along on allocine.fr (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Cash Truck - Death goes with you . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2005 (PDF; test number: 100 966 DVD).
- ↑ Publication in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Cash Truck - Death drives along on allocine.fr (French)
- ↑ http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-49521/secrets-tournage/
- ↑ Cash Truck - Death goes with you. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ prisma.de
- ↑ L'Oil sur l'Ecran (French)