The Boss (1985)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The boss |
| Original title | Hold-up |
| Country of production | Canada , France |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | approx. 85 or 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 or 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexandre Arcady |
| script |
Alexandre Arcady Francis Veber Daniel Saint-Hamont |
| production |
Alain Belmondo Bernard Bolzinger |
| music | Serge Franklin |
| camera | Richard Ciupka |
| cut | Joële Van Effenterre |
| occupation | |
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The boss ( hold-up ) is a French crook comedy from director Alexandre Arcady from the year 1985 . The film is based on the 1981 novel Quick change by Jay Cronley .
action
Grimm, who is reverently called the "Boss" by his gangster colleagues, has a crazy idea: Disguised as a clown, he invades the largest bank in Montreal and takes the bank employees and customers hostage. Thereupon the building is surrounded by the police, and the elderly, slightly overwhelmed-looking police chief Lefevre declares that he will quickly catch the clown. However, Grimm proves to be a brilliant tactician; As a gesture of goodwill, he releases a supposedly pregnant woman, a tearful man and an elderly man. When Lefevre storms the bank, he finds only the captured hostages, there is no trace of the clown and the captured 2.3 million dollars. Little did the police suspect that the “pregnant” Lise, who was carrying the loot on her stomach, and the tearful man too, were accomplices of the clown and that the older man was actually the clown himself. After leaving the bank, the three of them try to get to the airport as quickly as possible, and they get into hair-raising adventures in the process. They lose their car, accidentally rush into another bank, bribe a taxi driver until they finally land at the airport.
Reviews
“This Belmondo star vehicle, with its mix of a lot of action, little talk and imaginative gags, is acceptable; That was not always so."
"One of the cleverest Belmondo comedies."
“A comedic crime film that only works convincingly in the first third and otherwise comes up with well-known set pieces of the genre. Entertainment tailored to Jean-Paul Belmondo. "
backgrounds
The film was shot in Canada and Italy in the cities of Montreal and Rome .
In 1990, Bill Murray co-directed a remake of The Boss with Howard Franklin (co-director) . In the film called A Crazy Ingenious Coup , Bill Murray played the role of the clown, while Geena Davis slipped into the role of the "pregnant" accomplice.
literature
- Jay Cronley : Quick change . University of Oklahoma Press, Norman 2006, ISBN 0-8061-3773-8 , 259 pp. (Until 2007 there was no German translation)
Web links
- The boss in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The boss in the online film database
- The boss in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cut versions DVD Universum / Tobis - DVD VCL / MAWA by Der Boss at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Der Boß . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2013 (PDF; test number: 56 138 V).
- ^ Lexicon "Films on TV" (expanded new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 104 (Rating: 2½ stars = above average )
- ↑ Film review by Cinema ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ The boss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb