The coup of 7 aces
Movie | |
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German title | The coup of 7 aces |
Original title | Sette volte sette |
Country of production | Italy |
original language | Italian |
Publishing year | 1968 |
length | 101 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
Rod | |
Director | Michele Lupo |
script |
Sergio Donati (as Lorenzo Ruffino ) |
production | Marco Vicario |
music | Armando Trovajoli |
camera | Franco Villa |
cut | Sergio Montanari |
occupation | |
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The Coup der 7 Aces (original title: Sette volte sette ) is a crime film shot in 1968 with humorous intentions, directed by Michele Lupo and only released in German cinemas on June 18, 1973. The GDR television title is 7 aces , the later video publications are heavily shortened.
action
Seven prison inmates, specialists in their field, use the guards' enthusiasm for football during a championship playoff to break out of their cells, steal watermark paper from the Central Bank of England to print money and return to prison. The meticulously planned coup succeeds despite the cardiac death of one of the robbers; however, the stolen paper turns out to be worthless.
criticism
Michael Cholewa writes that the film always stays “on the monotonous paths of a comedy, clearly exuding the spirit of those days, but never achieving the charm of such flicks” (like Top Job or Das Superhirn ). The lexicon of the international film saw a "(largely) bouncy, only moderately entertaining crook comedy."
Remarks
The video version of the 101-minute film was shortened to just under 78 minutes.
The song "Seven Times Seven" is sung by the casuals .
The game shown is the final of the FA Cup between Everton FC and Sheffield Wednesday 1966.
Web links
- The coup of seven aces in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The film at comingsoon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Cholewa, Karsten Thurau: Der Terror directs - The Italian gangster and police film , p. 43, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0
- ↑ The coup of the 7 aces. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Gremese, 1992, pp. 491/492