The hell of Algiers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The hell of Algiers |
| Original title | L'Insoumis |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Cavalier |
| script | Alain Cavalier, Jean Cau |
| production |
Jacques Bar , Alain Delon, Georges Beaume |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Claude Renoir |
| cut | Pierre Gillette |
| occupation | |
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The Hell of Algiers ( L'Insoumis ) is a 1964 French thriller directed by Alain Cavalier and starring Alain Delon and Lea Massari . The script is inspired by the actual kidnapping of the 26-year-old French lawyer Mireille Glaymann in Algeria in January 1962 by the OAS and her liberation by one of the kidnappers after four days of imprisonment.
action
The Luxembourg resident Thomas V Klassenroot fought in the 1959 Algerian War in Kabylia as a member of the French Foreign Legion against the National Liberation Front . In a battle he cannot save one of his comrades from enemy fire. Two years later he went into hiding with his girlfriend Maria in Algiers after deserting with Lieutenant Fraser . Since Vassenroot sees no longer any prospects for himself in Algeria after the failed coup of the generals , he lets his former superior Fraser, who is now with the OAS, take on the kidnapping of the lawyer Dominique Servet, who is supposed to defend two underground fighters. With the payment, he wants to use the ship and then take the train home. He is homesick and misses his mother, the beehives on her farm and his daughter, whom he left behind five years ago when his wife left him.
The kidnapping succeeds, the kidnapped lawyer is locked in an apartment in a large apartment block. Thomas is supposed to guard them with Amerio, a rather primitive pied noir . When Amerio catches Thomas one night talking to Servet illegally and giving her something to drink, there is an exchange of fire that ends fatally for Amerio. Thomas himself is shot. He frees the lawyer and Félicien, another prisoner, and locks Fraser, whom he has ordered on an excuse, in the bathroom. Félicien takes Thomas to a doctor, where he can only receive makeshift treatment. With half of his payment received in advance and a reward from the lawyer, Thomas finances his crossing on a smuggler's boat to Marseille and the train journey to Luxembourg. At the stop in Lyon , he gets off the train to visit Dominique Servet. She gets him a doctor's appointment. After they have spent the waiting time together in a hotel room, Fraser suddenly shows up with an accomplice who had shadowed the lawyer. V Lassenroot can shoot the man and also incapacitates his former boss.
The time together has meant that Thomas and Dominique have fallen in love with each other; she wants to help the seriously injured man, who is undocumented, and drive him home. On their journey they run into a police check at night, which they evade by racing away. After a while, they had to abandon their car, a Citroën DS , which was badly damaged by police bullets. When her husband, who was notified by Dominique, appears at the agreed meeting point, all three make their way across the border and to the farm of Thomas' mother. Thomas goes to the house alone and collapses there after seeing his daughter Rose-Marie again.
production
Production notes
The film was shot between February 24 and May 29, 1964 and had its premiere in Paris on September 25, 1964. The German premiere was on March 19, 1965. In the USA the film was released under the title Have I the Right to Kill? also 1965. The international English title is: The Unvanquished . Bernard Evein designed the film structures.
background
A still from the film, in which Alain Delon can be seen, was used for the cover of the album The Queen Is Dead by the British rock band The Smiths in 1986 . Alain Delon was injured while filming.
The lawyer Mireille Glaymann sued the film director because she saw her own experiences in the film falsified. She managed to have the performance of the film temporarily stopped after a week and the film to be shortened by 25 minutes. She was awarded 10,000 of the 100,000 francs claimed in damages.
However, the version broadcast on television contains the removed scenes.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack, composed by Georges Delerue, was released as a 7 ″ single by Disques Barclay in 1964 and re-released as a download by Disques Cinémusique in 2016 .
| # | title | length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thème de Thomas | 2:41 |
| 2 | Thomas and Dominique | 2:18 |
| 3 | La fête dreary | 2:55 |
| 4th | Mort de Thomas | 3:45 |
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas V Klassenroot | Alain Delon | Klaus Kindler |
| Dominique Servet | Lea Massari | Ilse Kiewiet |
| Lieutenant Frazer | Georges Géret | Rolf Schult |
| Pierre Servet | Maurice Garrel | Ernst Wilhelm Borchert |
spectator
The film had only 711,339 viewers in France in three weeks in 1964 and only reached eighth place in the list of weekly box office results. In the winter of 1967/68 the film was shown again in a few cinemas in France.
criticism
“What starts out as a hard thriller gradually turns into a dark melodrama, which impresses with solid actors and hauntingly unconventional camera work. Presumably out of consideration for the censorship, the factual political issue was handled too vaguely, which especially affects the psychological credibility of the main character. "
"While the depiction of the political and historical background and consequently also certain motives for action are not always clear, the film impresses above all with its unconventional and excellent design."
Web links
- Hell of Algiers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Have I the Right to Kill trailers and excerpts from the US version in TCM (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Hell of Algiers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ OAS-gijzelaarster door Duitser talked . In: Dagblad De Stem . February 8, 1962, p. 3 (Dutch, Krantenbank Zeeland [accessed March 23, 2017]).
- ↑ Woman Secret Army Kidnaped In Algeria Tells of Her Escape . In: St. Louis Post-Dispatch . St. Louis February 7, 1962, p. 33 (American English, Newspapers.com [accessed March 23, 2017]).
- ^ Roberto Chiesi: Alain Delon . Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, ISBN 978-88-7301-498-0 , pp. 113 (French, Google Books [accessed March 24, 2017]).
- ↑ The Hell of Algiers (1964) - Release Info - IMDb. Retrieved March 23, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ Photos de presse d'Alain Delon. Retrieved March 24, 2017 (French).
- ^ Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, Bruce Babington: The Trouble with Men: Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema . Wallflower Press, New York City 2004, ISBN 978-1-904764-08-3 , pp. 53 (American English, Google Books [accessed March 23, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Roberto Chiesi: Alain Delon . Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, ISBN 978-88-7301-498-0 , pp. 29 (French, Google Books [accessed March 23, 2017]).
- ↑ James Donnadiéu: PARIS ... à votre porte . In: L'Impartial . La Chaux-de-Fonds March 6, 1965, p. 2 (French, RERO DOC [PDF; accessed on March 23, 2017]).
- ↑ James Donnadiéu: PARIS ... à votre porte . In: L'Impartial . La Chaux-de-Fonds January 23, 1965, p. 2 (French, RERO DOC [PDF; accessed on March 23, 2017]).
- ^ Film Music Site - L'Insoumis Soundtrack (Georges Delerue) - Barclay (1964). Retrieved March 22, 2017 (American English).
- ^ Film Music Site - L 'Insoumis Soundtrack (Georges Delerue) - Disques CinéMusique (2016). Retrieved March 22, 2017 (American English).
- ↑ The Hell of Algiers. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 22, 2017 .
- ^ L'Insoumis - Alain Delon Box Office 1964 - Box Office Story. Retrieved March 24, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Alain Delon, Le Dernier Samourai - Cinetom. Retrieved March 24, 2017 (French).
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 113/1965.