The unleashed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The unleashed |
| Original title | L'Agression |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gérard Pirès |
| script | Gérard Pirès, Jean-Patrick Manchette |
| production | Alain Poiré |
| music | Robert Charlebois |
| camera | Silvano Ippoliti |
| cut | Jacques Witta |
| occupation | |
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Die Unfesselten (original title: L'Agression ) is a French thriller with Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve from 1975. The story The Shrewsdale Exit by John Buell was used as a template .
action
The businessman Paul Varlin wants to go on vacation with his wife Hélène and his ten-year-old daughter Patty. On the way they stop at a motorway service station. When they get back into their car, a motorcycle gang becomes aware of the attractive Hélène. As we continue our journey, three bikers take up the chase. They close up and make obscene gestures. Pressed by the rowdies, Paul loses control of his car and drives down an embankment. He gets out immediately and starts brawling with the bikers. Hélène tries to intervene. A biker, however, grabs her and tears her blouse open while Paul is knocked down by the others. After regaining consciousness, Paul is horrified to discover that Hélène and Patty were raped and murdered. He then gives his testimony at the police headquarters.
At the cemetery, Paul meets his sister-in-law Sarah again, whom he has not seen for six years. After a joint visit to a restaurant, Sarah drives the drunken Paul to a hotel. No longer master of his senses, Paul attacks her in his room. Sarah knows how to defend herself, but then provocatively takes off her blouse and sleeps with him. When Paul is sober again, he apologizes for his behavior. He is supposed to identify the bikers at the police headquarters. Since the bikers who attacked him wore helmets, he tries to recognize them by voice. He then drives with Sarah to the rest stop, where he and Hélène and Patty had made a stopover shortly before their death. Like Paul and his family before, they are served in the restaurant by André Ducatel. Because Paul is dismissive of Sarah, Sarah gets furious and complains about the food.
When three suspicious bikers are released from pretrial detention for lack of evidence, Paul wants to take matters into his own hands. Together with Sarah, he tracks down Sauguet, the owner of a motorcycle workshop. Sauguet, who gave the bikers an alibi, assures him that he was telling the truth. Still convinced that only the bikers come into question as perpetrators, Paul drives after several bikers with Sarah. They reach ruins via a mountain road, where Paul and Sarah are picked up by three young men. However, they abruptly let go of them, whereupon Paul and Sarah come back to the rest area's restaurant. There Sarah is outraged by the hobby of the waiter André, who likes to secretly record the conversations of his guests on tape. After Paul von Sauguet had arranged a meeting with the bikers, he and Sarah paid a visit to André's house. There André shows him his rifles and then plays tape recordings of copulating animals to both guests.
After he has procured his own rifle, Paul prepares to drive to the agreed meeting with the bikers. Sarah, who was supposed to drive with him first, but discovered his rifle under the seat, wants to follow him to prevent a bloodbath. She wants to borrow André's car, but he prefers to drive himself. Meanwhile, Paul meets a couple of bikers on the motorway and shoots one of them down with his rifle. The other bikers are looking for the distance. On the other hand, one of her girls stays behind to check on the injured biker. While Paul is chasing the others, André and Sarah arrive on site and the girl asks them for help. Because it is half exposed, André suddenly goes nuts. He beats the girl and then goes after Sarah, to whom he plays a tape recording of Hélène, who is screaming for help, like mad. It turns out that André - and not the bikers - had molested Hélène and Patty and then murdered them. When the girl and Sarah run away from him, he sets off in his car in pursuit. Desperate, Sarah throws a stone into his windshield, whereupon André causes an accident and is then arrested by the arriving police. Paul has meanwhile arrived at the bikers' hiding place and is preparing to hunt them down. However, two police officers stop him and tell him that the real killer has been found. Paul finally realizes that his thirst for revenge blinded him and turned him into a violent person. Sarah says goodbye to him at the rest stop. She wanted to go back to her husband in Scotland, who, unlike Paul, was not violent.
background
The shooting took place in Noyers-sur-Jabron , in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department .
The Unleashed was premiered in France on April 16, 1975. In Germany the film was released on January 15, 1976. The main actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve later appeared together in The Money of Others (1978), The Men I Loved (1980) and Le bon plaisir - A political love affair (1984) together.
Reviews
“The director's inability to implement socially critical intentions relegates the remarkably cast film more to sex and crime cinema than to dedicated entertainment,” judged the lexicon of international films . For Cinema , on the other hand, the film was a "first-class, surprising thriller".
According to TimeOut London, the French biker film overcomes the limits it faces in “imitating an American genre” by “continuously attacking the values of the French middle class”. Catherine Deneuve gives the film a basic emotionality with her "good performance".
German version
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Varlin | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Norbert Langer |
| Sarah | Catherine Deneuve | Helga Trümper |
| André Ducatel | Claude Brasseur | Thomas Bride |
| Suction | Franco Fabrizi | Alexander Allerson |
Web links
- The Unchaining in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Unshackled. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 2, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ “A French motorcycle picture which […] transcends the limitations of imitating the American genre, and offers in its place a sustained attack on French middle class values. […] Deneuve […] provides the film's emotional core with a fine performance. " See L'Agression on timeout.com
- ↑ The Unshackled. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 2, 2018 .