The greyhound
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The greyhound |
| Original title | Flic ou Voyou |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1979 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georges Lautner |
| script |
Jean Herman Michel Audiard |
| production | Alain Poiré |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Henri Decaë |
| cut | Michèle David |
| occupation | |
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The greyhound (original title: Flic ou Voyou ) is a French crime film by director Georges Lautner from 1979 with Jean-Paul Belmondo .
action
Stanislas Borowitz is a commissioner from the IGPN (Inspection Générale de la Police Nationale), who uses particularly effective and rapid methods to put down corrupt police officers. After consultation with Commissioner Grimaud, he is sent from Paris to Nice to fight the local mafia and to investigate the murder of a corrupt commissioner.
Borowitz assumes the identity of a criminal named Antonio Cerruti and triggers a war between the two biggest local gang leaders Théodore Musard and Achille Volfoni. In addition, Stanislas exposes a secret police organization of the Mafia in the city. In parallel with his investigations, Borowitz begins a relationship with the wealthy novelist Edmonde Puget-Rostand. However, his investigations are disrupted by the sudden appearance of his daughter Charlotte, who has run away from a boarding school in England.
When the corrupt police inspectors Rey and Massard, who both work for Volfini, discover Borowitz's true identity, they want to get him out of the way at all costs. An attack on Borowitz by Rey fails and Stanislas makes it appear as if Volfoni was responsible for Rey's death. Eventually Charlotte is kidnapped by Musard and his men. Borowitz initially suspects Volfoni and keeps him prisoner. However, through a package that was sent to Edmonde and contains a shoe and a telephone number on a piece of paper, Borowitz realizes that Musard was behind Charlotte's kidnapping.
Massard offers Stanislas his help, which Stanislas apparently accepts. Massard kills Musard and his henchmen and brings Charlotte back to her father. In the end, however, Borowitz betrays the corrupt Massard, with the latter perishing together with Volfoni while trying to escape. Stanislas says goodbye to Edmonde and returns to Paris with Charlotte.
Reviews
"A police film staged with a certain amount of speed and wit, but also with a lot of stereotypical set pieces that earlier films with Belmondo reproduce, whose parodistic approaches do not cover up his sympathies for vigilante justice."
"The" professional "at its best - action with flavor."
background
- The world premiere took place on March 28, 1979; the film premiered in West Germany on June 21, 1979.
- The Greyhound was the fourth highest-grossing film in France in 1979 with nearly 4 million viewers.
- The film was shot in Nice .
- As in most of his films, Belmondo performed the stunts himself.
- The role name Edmonde Puget-Rostand is apparently an allusion to the theater writer Edmond Rostand .
Web links
- The greyhound in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The greyhound in the online film database
- The greyhound in the German synchronous file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Greyhound . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2011 (PDF; test number: 50 776 V).
- ↑ The Greyhound. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 15, 2018 .
- ↑ film review on cinema.de
- ↑ Release info according to IMDb
- ↑ Trivia according to IMDb
- ↑ Box office / business according to IMDb
- ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb