The girl and the inspector
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The girl and the inspector |
| Original title | Max et les ferrailleurs |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1971 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Sautet |
| script | Claude Sautet |
| production |
Raymond Danon Roland Girard |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | René Mathelin |
| cut | Jacqueline Thiédot |
| occupation | |
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The girl and the Commissioner (Original title: Max et les ferrailleurs) is directed by Claude Sautet incurred French feature film from 1971. It is an adaptation of the novel by Claude Néron .
action
Max is the detective superintendent of the Paris police . He used to be a judge. Since Max comes from a wealthy family, he is financially independent. A series of successful bank robberies has kept the crime department in suspense, and there are deaths. After all the failures, Max has the obsession to catch criminals in the act. He approaches Abel, whom he knows from military service, to set a trap for him. The former Foreign Legionnaire works with some other underdogs in a junkyard in the suburb of Nanterre . Abel and his clique also keep afloat more badly than well through criminal activities such as building site theft. Max decides to make an example of this band of narrow-gauge gangsters. Not only Abel's friend Lili, a German prostitute from the gang's environment, is the victim of his manipulation.
Max approaches Lili as a suitor, pretends to be a banker and arouses her interest by paying her princely to keep him company, but foregoing sexual consideration. The astonished Lili begins to question him. Max serves up the prepared legend that something can be bought from his small bank in the east of Paris due to regular high deposits. Conversations about dissatisfaction with the current life situation and apparently randomly received inside information give Lili the idea of letting her partner Abel and his cronies rob the bank. Abel is more or less the leader of the gang. Lili gets involved with Max more intensely and finally even fakes him affectionate. She doesn't want to accept any more money from him.
The inspector's plan succeeds and the entire junkyard gang falls into the trap with the help of gang member “Dromedary” - pimp and police informant. But Commissioner Rosinsky, who is directly responsible for the district and thus also for the case, also wants to bring those who knew about it, and especially Lili, to the judge, because he has now realized that everyone was manipulated by Max.
Perhaps because Max feels sorry for Lili or because he believes her expressions of affection: When Max realizes that Rosinsky will not let go of Lili, he quickly takes out his pistol and shoots the inspector. Max is led away by his colleagues and taken to prison. The narrator closes the film with the words: "With the murder of Rosinsky, he ended up where he had taken the others."
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : excellently staged and acted crime film.
- Prisma Online: Claude Sautet succeeded in a wonderfully soulful narrated and played relationship thriller. Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli and Bernard Fresson in particular offer brilliant acting skills.
- Critic.de: Claude Sautet's classic The Girl and the Commissioner from 1971 is an exciting crime film, but at the same time much more than that. The framework of the staged bank robbery ultimately takes a back seat to the haunted character studies typical of Sautet.
literature
- Claude Néron : Max et les ferrailleurs . La Guilde du livre No. 853. La Guilde du livre, Lausanne 1971, 251 p. (No German translation exists yet)
Web links
- The girl and the Commissioner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The girl and the inspector. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ prisma.de
- ↑ See critic.de