The great coup of Casablanca

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Movie
German title The great coup of Casablanca
Original title L'Homme de Marrakech
Country of production France ,
Italy ,
Spain
original language French
Publishing year 1966
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jacques Deray
script Jacques Deray,
José Giovanni ,
Henri Lanoë
production Claude Giroux
music Alain Goraguer
camera Henri Raichi
cut Antonio Ramírez de Loaysa
occupation

The great coup of Casablanca (original title: L'Homme de Marrakech ) is a French-Italian-Spanish gangster film from 1966 by Jacques Deray , who - together with José Giovanni and Henri Lanoë - wrote the script. This is based on the 1965 novel Les Pilleurs du dimanche by Robert Page Jones . The leading roles are Claudine Auger , George Hamilton , Alberto de Mendoza and Tiberio Murgia . The film was first released in France on April 24, 1966. It had its premiere in the Federal Republic of Germany on July 28, 1967.

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Four men and a woman have teamed up to intercept a gold shipment from a Moroccan mine in the old-fashioned way : the chief engineer of the mine, who arranges the shipment, a car mechanic who made the transport vehicle unsafe (!) During the last vehicle inspection . wants to tinker, the adventurer and truck driver Georges, in whose giant refrigerated truck the transport truck is supposed to disappear after a successful attack, and last but not least, the initiator and boss of the company, the smart gangster Travis with his girlfriend Lila.

The big coup succeeds, but not according to the agreed plan, but according to Travis' secret concept, after which not only the guards of the transporter, but also the accomplice of the auto mechanic turn into rather unsightly corpses. Before Georges suffers the same fate, Lila throws him a revolver : Travis is gathered to meet his victims. Finally, Georges and Lila completely forget their third husband, the mine engineer, who was still there, and flee through picturesque areas to Madrid , where in the course of time they hope to stop the gold robbery.

The "forgotten" engineer, however, had no real confidence in his employees from the start and put a detective on their trail. Soon after, the couple is visited by the cheated in Madrid. Georges, who did not know about the existence of the man, gets angry with his wrong companion, whistles about gold and women and runs away. From a distance he witnesses a wild shootout in which all gold-greedy people have to believe in it.

Reviews

The Protestant film observer is anything but enthusiastic: “The story of an old-fashioned gold robbery is reported lengthy and with little tension. Occasional beautiful landscape shots weigh too little against dramaturgical simplicity and logical aberrations. The film is boring and cannot be recommended. ”The lexicon of the international film comes to a similar assessment :“ Somewhat viscous adventure story in a cynically illuminated rogue environment. ”

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Evangelischer Filmbeobachter , Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 321/1967, pp. 415–416.
  2. The great coup of Casablanca. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 11, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used