The corruptible
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| German title | The corruptible |
| Original title | Les ripoux |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Claude Zidi |
| script |
Simon Michaël Didier Kaminka (dialogue) Claude Zidi |
| production | Claude Zidi |
| music | Francis Lai |
| camera | Jean-Jacques Tarbès |
| cut | Nicole Saunier |
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Die Briblichen (Original title: Les ripoux ) is a French comedy film by Claude Zidi from 1984 with Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte , which won the César in the Best Film category . Two sequels followed.
Lazy corrupt Parisian inspector René Boirond enjoys his life with the perks of the underworld. His new partner François Lesbuche, on the other hand, is a law-abiding nerd fresh from college, whom the old rascal must first get a taste for and gently pull over to his side.
action
René Boirond has been an inspector in Paris for 20 years . He is well-known in his sections and has long agreed to small perks with the petty criminals on the street, for which he turns a blind eye to gambling, street sales, but also small burglaries. He himself is a pleasure drinker, a passionate horse lover and active in horse racing. His dream is to own a pub near the racecourse.
One day, with the young François Lesbuche from Épinal , René is given an ambitious and incorruptible partner who does not drink, but learns the laws, because he wants to become a commissioner in a few years. Suddenly René is forced to pay for food in his favorite pub, and he can only let the usual petty criminals go secretly. When François proudly brings a handbag thief to the station one day, René draws up a declaration that the man found the bag and brought it to the police himself. François is irritated, but quickly learns that there is an internal regulation according to which minor offenses should not be prosecuted, so that the district is not declared one of the crooks of Paris. René now gives François a few lessons: He lets him question a criminal who is known as a “martyr” among his colleagues, he always injures himself when questioned. François protests that he has done nothing to the severely bleeding man and René pretends to to clarify the matter for him with the boss. René also puts the young Natasha on François, who pretends to receive death threats. She later leads him to a pub, where François ends up with a horrific score to settle. After an unsuccessful tip in the horse race that René arranged, François is finally broke. He begins to warm to René's little extra income, not least so that he can continue to see and perform Natasha.
Through René's contacts, François was given new clothes and learned to earn money from street vendors and gamblers. He learns who is bribing René for what misconduct, be it moonlighting or secret poker. But after a while, the real work also calls. The Paris police have long been after the crook Camoun, who is drug trafficking on a large scale. One day René noticed by chance that the house in which Camoun operates is connected to a second one, so that the gangster could escape at any time via a completely unguarded side exit. Before he can pass the knowledge on to his boss, a special commission takes over the case. For the little policemen René and François there is nothing left to do in the Camoun affair. The plan is to stop Camoun selling his drugs. Fabric is said to be sold for a million dollars. François wants to take the money from Camoun and blackmails René to take part in the campaign. In fact, both manage to steal Camoun's money that night while the Soko storms the building. However, Camoun and his people start to pursue the police car. François rushes into the Seine at full speed with the money, while René Camoun and his men later kill Camoun and his men with the help of a major fire and explosion. René is brought to justice and pretends that he only wanted to secure the money to hand it over to Soko later. The notes, in turn, were destroyed in the fire. René is sentenced to two years' imprisonment and during this time does not hear from François, who quits his service after four months. With his lover Simone, René believes that François cheated on him. Disappointed, he renounces horse racing. After two years, René is released from prison. He is received by François and Natasha and Simone. François has bought René a racehorse that will start his first horse race on the same day. In addition, the pub at the Rennplatz that he always wanted now belongs to René. The group moves happily away from the prison.
production
The corruptible was filmed in Paris. The film was released in French cinemas on September 19, 1984 and also opened in German cinemas on May 3, 1985. The film was shown in GDR cinemas from June 5, 1987. German television premieres were on October 3, 1987 on ARD and on January 21, 1989 on DFF (GDR). In 2005 the film was released on DVD.
In 1989, director Claude Zidi staged the first sequel to the film, Gauner gegen Gauner , again with Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte in the leading roles. In 2003 the second sequel followed The Bribes 3 - Return of a crook , in which the participants of the first part participated.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| René | Philippe Noiret | Horst Schön |
| François | Thierry Lhermitte | Ulrich Matthes |
| Commissioner Bloret | Julien Guiomar | Joachim Nottke |
| Pierrot | Pierre Frag | Karl-Ulrich Meves |
| Franck | Jacques Frantz | Karl Schulz |
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , Die Briberlichen was “an excellently played and captivatingly staged 'film policier', who transforms its serious subject - police corruption - into a burlesque.” Cinema praised the film as “absurd, mercilessly funny [n] Police film by Claude Zidi "and summarized:" A blast: captivating and also hilarious ".
Awards
The film won three Césars in 1985 : in the category of Best Director (Claude Zidi), Best Editing (Nicole Saunier) and Best Film . He was also nominated for a César in the categories of Best Actor (Philippe Noiret) and Best Original Screenplay (Claude Zidi).
Web links
- My New Partner at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bribes. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Bribes. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de