The Adventurers (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | The adventurers |
| Original title | Les Aventuriers |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Robert Enrico |
| script | Robert Enrico José Giovanni Pierre Pilegri |
| music | François de Roubaix |
| camera | Jean Boffety |
| cut | Jacqueline Meppiel |
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The adventurers (original title: Les Aventuriers) is a film drama by the French director Robert Enrico from 1967.
action
Manu and Roland are friends for life and both have a passion for adventurous projects. The sports pilot Manu does spectacular tricks with his aircraft, while the mechanic Roland works obsessively on a dragster with which he wants to break speed records.
One day the young artist Laetitia shows up in Roland's workshop, where she wants to buy scrap parts from him that she needs for her art. Roland initially rejects her, but Laetitia spontaneously offers him her help, which he gladly accepts. They go to a fallow area and together they erect a metal structure through which a small airplane flies. The flight is the dress rehearsal for Manu's next coup: he wants to fly through the triumphal arch and take photos for which someone has offered him a lot of money. After the maneuver, the three literally get to know each other. Manu, Roland and Laetitia quickly become friends. She rents into Roland's workshop, where she can weld her sculptures, Manu prepares for the flight and Roland works on the engine of his dragster. The story takes a turn when Manu starts his daring flight. The feat is prevented and he gets rid of his pilot license. Things are not going better for Roland, his methyl alcohol-powered racing car goes up in flames. Laetitia welds sculptures from the parts of the wreck, but the exhibition with these becomes a flop. To make matters worse, Manu learns that he was a joker in the photos. Angry, Manu and Roland lie in wait for the impostor (an employee of an insurance company) and give him a beating. Fearing further blows, he confides a secret to the two of them: there is said to be treasure in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed off the coast of the Congo. Since the two are financially at the end, they want to investigate the matter, although they initially consider the story to be another hoax. You go to Africa with Laetitia.
The trio has set up on a boat to search for the lost treasure. They search the coast, dive down to wrecks, have fun and are in an exuberant thirst for adventure. Manu fell in love with Laetitia, but she apparently feels more drawn to Roland. Roland notices his friend's feelings and feels uncomfortable, but before there is a discussion, the situation escalates. The three actually find the plane and dig up the treasure, but they are attacked by mercenaries who are also after the loot. In the fight that follows, a stray bullet hits Laetitia and mortally wounds her. Manu and Roland are full of sadness and bury their friend on one last dive in the deep blue sea. Then they return to France with the treasure that they were able to save from the mercenary attack. They decide to give Laetitia's share to her family. On the Île-d'Aix they then find their only living relative, a little boy (they have already met him as a museum guide), and hand over the money to their parents in trust.
Meanwhile, the gangsters are still on their trail. In Fort Boyard (which Laetitia wanted to buy with her share of the booty) off the coast, the final showdown finally takes place. Surrounded, Manu and Roland defend themselves with weapons that still come from the German occupiers. At first they can kill one of the mercenaries, but then Manu is hit and he cannot continue fighting. Roland runs to him, but sees that there is nothing he can do, and because the mercenaries keep shooting at him, he retires to the old arsenal. From there he comes back with an arm full of old stick grenades with which he continues the fight alone. In this last scene, carried by sacred organ music, he brings down all intruders. After the leader has also been killed, he returns to the seriously injured Manu. Roland bends over his friend and realizes his helplessness in the face of death. He tells him that Laetitia said she wanted to be with Manu forever. Shortly before his end, Manu shows a smile and replies: "Dear, old liar!"
criticism
“Lively staged adventure film that is not so much about superficial tension as about the drawing of different characters under extreme conditions. At the same time the film demonstrates the impossibility of romantic adventure in our time. "
“The film, which was still lively at the beginning, later takes on unexpectedly serious tones and ends sadly. Despite the obvious weaknesses of the director, the cast, camera work and background music lift the varied work into the area of contemplative entertainment that will appeal to many people aged 16 and over. "
Web links
- The adventurers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Die Adventurer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 37 188 V).
- ↑ The Adventurers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Critique No. 164/1967, p. 228.