The other's skin
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The other's skin |
| Original title | Avec la peau des autres |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1966 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jacques Deray |
| script |
José Giovanni , Jacques Deray , Georges Bardawil |
| production | Eugène Tucherer |
| music | Michel Magne |
| camera | Jean Boffety |
| cut |
Henri Lanoë , Vincenzo Tomassi |
| occupation | |
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The skin of the other (original title: Avec la peau des autres ) is a Franco-Italian agent film by Jacques Deray from 1966 . The action takes place in Vienna during the Cold War .
action
Pascal Fabre is sent to Vienna by the French secret service. He should find out there whether his old colleague Margery, who heads the Vienna section of the service, is playing a double game. Margery, for whom the pavement in Vienna has become too hot, wants to leave for Italy with Anna, his lover, but Soviet agents under the leadership of Chalieff kidnap the two. Margery is interrogated but does not reveal anything. In the meantime, with the help of the coffee house owner Kern, Fabre manages to find a microfilm that the Russians are after. Fabre sets up a trap for Chalieff to get him out of the way. Margery, who no longer sees a future for himself, kills himself while Fabre can free Anna. At a meeting previously arranged by Margery, at which Fabre appears in "the skin of the other", he learns that Margery wanted to sell his information to the Chinese secret service. Fabre helps Anna escape to Switzerland, he himself returns to France.
criticism
"A somewhat confused, but largely exciting spy adventure, which in its sober, atmospherically dense design largely knows how to avoid the clichés of the genre."
“Agent thrillers with a pleasantly low number of the usual templates in this genre. Objections, however, because murder is not branded as murder, on whose behalf it occurs. "
Web links
- The skin of the others in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film on Arte
Individual evidence
- ↑ The other's skin. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 403/1966