The good and the bad
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The good and the bad |
| Original title | Le bon et les mechants |
| Country of production | France |
| original language |
French German |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Lelouch |
| script | Claude Lelouch |
| music | Francis Lai |
| camera | Jacques Lefrançois |
| cut | Georges Klotz |
| occupation | |
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The Good and the Bad is a 1976 French spy comedy directed by Claude Lelouch .
action
The year 1935: The two auto mechanics Jacques and Simon are little crooks who have been hot on the heels of police officer Bruno for years. They steal a modern Citroën Traction Avant and commit bank robberies. The new car makes them faster than the police. You organize all thefts on your own and kindly decline an offer to work with crime boss Lafont. One day they get to know the prostitute Lola in a dance bar, and they add her to their team. Together they now steal from rich French too. Bruno is meanwhile honored for his fight against gang mischief. While Jacques and Lola are married improvised by Simon, Bruno marries his great love Dominique, the wife of his superior Blanchot.
France is partially occupied by the German armed forces. Bruno collaborates with the National Socialists , while Jacques, Lola and Simon almost have big problems with the occupiers, since Simon is Jewish. Only her acquaintance with Lafont, who was promoted to head of the French Gestapo , saves her. Lafont offers the gang to work for her. They are supposed to betray Jews and Communists and in return receive 50 percent of the profits from the property of the arrested. Undecided, Lafont lets them watch a Jewish couple raid. Numerous valuable paintings are confiscated and are soon to be brought to Berlin by train. Jacques, Lola and Simon ambush the train and uncouple the car with the picture. Only when the act was portrayed on the radio as an attack by the Resistance and threatened to kill numerous residents of a French village if the pictures were not returned, did the gang return the pictures. The driving force behind the extortion of the gang is Bruno, who willingly cooperates with the Nazis in the police apparatus.
Lola notices that she is pregnant by Jacques. Jacques is betrayed, but only Lola is in the apartment when Bruno tries to arrest him. He arrests Lola and tortures her until she passes out. Only a phone call from Jacques makes him stop: Jacques announces that he has Bruno's wife Dominique under his control and that he will do exactly what Bruno is doing to Lola to her. Dominique, who despises her husband for his collaboration with the Nazis, is eventually exchanged for Lola. She later visits Jacques on her own and starts an affair with him. She willingly reveals plans of the Nazis, which Bruno tells her about. Jacques and Simon manage to save the head of the Resistance from arrest. In the following years they passed on their knowledge to the Resistance. The occupiers soon become suspicious, as they suspect that Bruno is working for the Resistance. Bruno's superior has Dominique monitored and can arrest Jacques. He tortures him in front of Dominique's eyes, who finally claims that her husband has been working for the Resistance since 1942. Bruno denies it and his superior gives him a choice: either he shoots his wife because she is the traitor, or he commits suicide because he is the traitor himself. When Bruno shoots Dominique, his superiors consider him a traitor, since only the Resistance can make such sacrifices. Both Jacques and Bruno are arrested. After the American liberation of France, both men are honored for their resistance to the Nazis. Bruno becomes the second deputy of the Paris police prefect and wants to devote himself to the spasm against gangs of thieves as before. Jacques, in turn, realizes that an award alone does not make him an honest man, and begins again with Simon and Lola on theft tours.
production
The Good and the Bad was filmed in 1975. After A Man and a Woman, it was the second film that Lelouch made in sepia . The film was released in French cinemas on January 21, 1976, where it was seen by around one million viewers. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas on January 27, 1978 and was released on DVD in January 2006.
criticism
The "intelligently conceived comedy [suffers] from a lack of speed and the blurring of its wit," said the film service .
Awards
Brigitte Fossey was nominated for a César in 1977 for Best Supporting Actress.
Web links
- The good and the bad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The good and the bad in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ The good and the bad on allocine.fr
- ↑ The good and the bad. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .