The man with the torpedo skin

Movie
German title	The man with the torpedo skin
Original title	La peau de torpédo
Country of production	France , Italy , Germany
original language	French
Publishing year	1970
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Jean Delannoy
script	Jean Cau , Jean Delannoy
production	Maurice Jacquin
music	François de Roubaix
camera	Edmond Séchan
cut	Louisette Hautecoeur , Henri Taverna
occupation
Stéphane Audran : Dominique Klaus Kinski : Pavel Richko / Torpedo I Lilli Palmer : Helen Michel Constantin : Coster Angelo Infanti : Jean / Gianni Jean Claudio : Fedor / The Shadowed One Frédéric de Pasquale : Nicolas Baslier Noëlle Adam : Laurence Philippe March : Salesman Christine Fabréga : Sylvianne Collet Jacques Harden : Police inspector from Paris Micheline Luccioni : postal worker Georges Lycan : Torpedo II Bernard Musson : Police Inspector Roger Lumont : truck driver Robert Favart : Chief Inspector Catherine Jacobsen : Françoise

The man with the torpedo skin (original title: La peau de torpédo ) is a French-Italian-German feature film from 1970 by Jean Delannoy . He wrote the script himself together with Jean Cau . It is based on the novel of the same name by Francis Ryck . The main roles are cast with Stéphane Audran , Klaus Kinski , Lilli Palmer and Michel Constantin . The film first hit the cinemas on June 3, 1970 in France . It had its premiere in Germany on October 30, 1970.

action

An agent of an ominous power group, working under the guise of an art dealer, is given the task of photographing important documents in an industrial group. After the coup was successful, he and an agent assigned to him went into hiding for a few days in an apartment in Paris. His wife Dominique, who suspects him to be on a business trip, finds out about his whereabouts - and shoots them both down. On the run, the murderess finds shelter on the dismantled steamer of a small fisherman.

Meanwhile, both the police and some agents are looking for the negatives. One of them, who suspects the negatives to be in the Paris apartment, falls into the trap of the police. But before he can be forced to give up his clients, he commits suicide. The police finally find the films in a locker, but let the agents keep searching in order to get at the people behind them. To this end, the life of the murderer, who has meanwhile been tracked down by both groups, is at risk because the agents hope to find the recordings on her. However, the police get ahead of them and arrest the agent's chief before she can swallow a poisonous capsule. On the return journey, however, she lets another member of the agent ring shoot her. Now the hunt for the masterminds begins again. The film leaves open who they are.

criticism

The lexicon of international films succinctly notes that it is a "somewhat ostensible, but largely exciting crime film". The Protestant film observer draws the following conclusion: “Except for a few embarrassing slip-ups, an atmospherically dense agent film in a cool style. For friends of the genre from 16. "

Web link

• The man with the torpedo skin in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Source: Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 503/1970, p. 504
2. ↑ Lexikon des Internationale Films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2464.
3. ↑ The man with the torpedo skin. In: Lexicon of the international film. Film service, accessed February 25, 2020 .