The Bull of Paris
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Bull of Paris |
| Original title | Policy |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Maurice Pialat |
| script |
Catherine Breillat , Sylvie Pialat , Jacques Fieschi , Maurice Pialat |
| music | Henryk Mikołaj Górecki |
| camera | Luciano Tovoli |
| cut | Yann Dedet |
| occupation | |
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The Bull of Paris (Original Title: Police ) is a French feature film directed by Maurice Pialat from 1985 with Gérard Depardieu in the leading role. The film adaptation is based on the novel Bodies Are Dust by PJ Wolfson .
action
Mangin is a cynical and violent Paris police officer who wants to break up a drug ring made up of Tunisian brothers. During his investigation into the dealers, he falls in love with Noria, the girlfriend of one of the main suspects. When he was in jail in Marseille, Noria stole two million francs and heroin from the brothers' hiding place. The Tunisians put pressure on her and her lawyer. To save them, Mangin brings back the money and drugs for the brothers. In the end, Noria leaves him, even though he has admitted his love for her.
background
Apart from two pieces of music in a disco and the song from Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Symphony No. 3 , which runs during the credits, there is no music in the film.
Three years after its French premiere, the film was shown in West German cinemas on October 20, 1988.
Reviews
According to the lexicon of international film , "the irritating film [...] is constantly directed against the clichés of the genre". He tells an “extraordinary story, limited to a few locations, of the search for security and identity, whereby the good actors give it intensity and density”.
Prisma said that the main actor Gérard Depardieu offers "in this subtle chamber play the entire range of his acting skills". So he plays "just as convincingly the reliable, incorruptible, tough cop as the ambivalent and lonely doubter". The internet portal film.at saw the film as a “portrait of the symbiotic relationship between police work and crime, without moralizing and cynicism, characterized by the force of the moment, by an 'everyday perspective' in which often those moments that do not play a role in other police officers (are allowed) to focus on: the standstill between the investigations, the details of the painstaking detailed work, the drifting through the quagmire, the camera always shakily behind you - a life always on the threshold ”.
In its program preview , ARD described the film as "an excellently cast, deeply irritating psychogram of a police officer, his inner and outer involvement in the criminal milieu".
Awards
- 1985: Coppa Volpi for Gérard Depardieu in the Best Actor category at the Venice International Film Festival
synchronization
A German dubbed version was made in 1988.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Mangin | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
| Lambert | Richard Anconina | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Lydie | Sandrine Bonnaire | Rebecca Völz |
| Gauthier | Jacques Mathou | Joachim Kerzel |
| Claude | Bentahar Meaachou | Thomas Wolff |
Web links
- The bull of Paris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review: 'Police' . In: Variety , December 31, 1984, accessed August 2, 2018.
- ↑ The Bull of Paris. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See prisma.de
- ↑ See film.at
- ↑ See ARD program preview of August 9, 2010
- ↑ The Bull of Paris. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 2, 2018 .