The coup of 7 aces

Movie
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
	Gastone Moschin : Benjamin Burton; Lionel Stander : Sam; Raimondo Vianello : Bodoni; Gordon Mitchell : Big Ben; Paolo Gozlino : Bing ; (as Paul Stevens ); Nazzareno Zamperla : Bananas; Teodoro Corrà : Briggs; Erika Blanc : Mildred; Terry-Thomas : Police Inspector; Turi Ferro : Bernard; Adolfo Celi : prison director; Ray Lovelock : Mildred's friend;

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

[1] Michael Cholewa, Karsten Thurau: Der Terror directs - The Italian gangster and police film , p. 43, 2nd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-931608-91-0

[2] The coup of the 7 aces. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .

[3] R. Poppi, M. Pecorari: Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film Vol. 3. Gremese, 1992, pp. 491/492