The Panther (1985)

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Movie
German title The Panther
Original title Parole de flic
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Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1985
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director José Pinheiro
script Alain Delon , José Pinheiro
production Jacques Bar
music Pino Marchese
camera Richard Andry ,
Jean-Jacques Tarbès
cut Claire Pinheiro
occupation

The Panther is a French crime film with Alain Delon in the lead role. Directed by José Pinheiro . The film opened in German cinemas on January 30, 1986.

action

Daniel Pratt resigned from the police force 10 years ago and went to Africa. His daughter stayed in France and fell victim to a secret commando who committed her friend's theft. They wanted to put an end to the criminals in Lyon by executing them and then shot them without further ado. Pratt returns to find his daughter's killers. The young commissioner Sabine Clement is entrusted with the case and is watching it at the behest of her superior and Pratt's friend from the old days Stéphane Rainer.

Pratt investigates on his own and learns from a well-known arms dealer that the murder weapons ( SPAS-12 rifles) have been handed over to Abel at the police firing range. When the gang goes out again to kill criminals, Pratt is there and can expose one of the men before he escapes. He tracks him down and knocks him down to find out the names of the buddies. Abel kills the confidant who is injured in the hospital.

Pratt finds one after another and the gang decimates. In doing so, he escapes several assassinations. When the gang breaks into Commissioner Clement's house to look for him, she is shot. Finally he looks for the last man next to Abel and falls into a police trap. He learns that the tip came from Stéphane Rainer and is able to flee with a hostage. In the subsequent chase he falls into a river, whereupon the police assume his death. Meanwhile, Rainer turns out to be the mastermind behind the command and shoots Abel when he no longer needs him.

Pratt learns from Rainer's wife that Rainer went to the circus with her son. Pratt takes on the role of a drunken clown whom he has overpowered in his car. As such, he brings Rainer under his control during a magic trick. Back in the car, Rainer admits that he wanted to fight the criminals because he felt so powerless as a police officer. The death of Pratt's daughter was not intended. Pratt decides not to kill Rainer after all and pulls away without his pistol. Rainer follows him and attacks him, but in the end shoots himself.

Reviews

“In places a tough underworld film that mainly serves as an action vehicle for the main actor Alain Delon; ambivalent through the propagation of vigilante justice. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Hard underworld film in which Alain Delon, as a former police superintendent, gets caught between the lines of police and gangsters because he wants to avenge his murdered daughter."

- kino.de

“In the mid-1980s, France's screen star Alain Delon turned more and more to action cinema. In this tough and violent genre work, which José Pinheiro staged based on a book that Delon also worked on, the actor and producer, who performed all of his stunts himself, shines in the role of the lone avenger who takes his daughter's murderer with everyone Wants to transfer funds. "

- prisma.de

background

  • The film was mainly shot in Lyon . The nightclub scene originated in Paris , the African scenes in the People's Republic of the Congo .
  • The German version contained radical cuts in scenes of violence, so that the film looked a bit choppy in many places. Its indexing was prematurely lifted in January 2014. A re-examination of the FSK showed a release from 16 years.
  • The Panther was a huge hit in France in 1985 with 2.5 million admissions, even before the James Bond episode In the Face of Death .
  • Three years later, Alain Delon made Panther II - Ice Cold as Fire , a film with a similar plot about a secret association and vigilante justice.

Film music

The Italian song "Una vita senza lacrime" in the bar on the shooting range was produced by Drafi Deutscher and sung by Nino de Angelo . Alain Delon sang the final track song "I Don't Know" together with Phyllis Nelson himself.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Panther . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 55 927 V).
  2. ↑ The panther. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ kino.de
  4. ↑ prisma.de
  5. ↑ IMDb locations
  6. ↑ The Panther and The Panther II after deletion of the list with approval
  7. ↑ www.allocine.fr "Un beau succès au box-office" (French)
  8. ↑ IMDb Box office
  9. ↑ Panther II - Ice cold as fire in the IMDb
  10. ↑ a b IMDb soundtrack
  11. ↑ www.allocine.fr "Delon scénariste et chanteur" (French)