The dogs

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Movie
German title The dogs
Original title Les Chiens
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1979
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Alain Jessua
script Alain Jessua,
André Ruellan
production Laurent Meyniel
music René Koering ,
Michel Portal
camera Etienne Becker
cut Hélène Plemiannikov
occupation
synchronization

The dogs (Original title: Les Chiens ) is a French film drama with Gérard Depardieu from 1979.

action

Doctor Henri Ferret moves to a working-class town in the French provinces. He quickly notices that more and more people in the area are buying aggressive guard dogs out of fear of assault and crime. The number of patients with bite wounds is therefore higher than average, to Ferret's dismay. When the mayor of the city wants to take action against the dog breeder Morel and his training methods, he is attacked by a dog and killed.

While the local police believe there has been an accident, Dr. Ferret sure there is more to the attack. It turns out that Morel uses targeted training to train attack dogs to take power in the city. He also initiates hunts for members of the black minority, which also lead to deaths. When training dogs, their owners also become increasingly aggressive. So did Elisabeth, a teacher and Ferret's friend, who got a dog after being raped on the way home. When she recognizes her rapist and he wants to kill her in her apartment, her dog saves her life and the media celebrate Morel as a hero.

Thereupon two young people, Franck and Jacques, who have already been attacked several times by the dogs in the city, set off fireworks in Morel's dog kennel to scare the animals. In the subsequent hunt by Morel and his dogs, Franck falls off a cliff and dies. Elisabeth, who witnessed the accident, wants to call the police and report Morel. Her people force her and Ferret to leave the city. Jacques wants to take revenge for the death of his friend. One night he ambushes Morel. He stabs him and sets his house and dog kennel on fire. With his last strength, Morel runs through the streets looking for help. In the black neighborhood he finally collapses and dies.

background

The dogs premiered on March 7, 1979 in France and then ran at the Moscow International Film Festival , where director Alain Jessua received a nomination for an award. In Germany, the film was first shown on television on August 9, 1985.

The film was the first of a total of nine joint films by the French stars Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant so far . Two years later they became famous as the tragic lovers in François Truffaut's drama The Woman Next Door (1981).

Reviews

The lexicon of international film saw the film as a "very suggestive, depressing parable about self-defense that turns into its opposite". At the same time, it is about "a political reflection on the transformation of democratic principles into authoritarian-dictatorial behavior and fascist leader states". The political message illustrated in the film, however, is "weakened by the somewhat superficial staging and some general sociological statements". Cinema rated what was seen as "a dark game of fear and fantasies of omnipotence", which was also conceived as a "[s] uggestive plea against vigilante justice". TimeOut London spoke of a “worth seeing, thoughtful film that deals with its big issues in a surprisingly complex way”.

Awards

German version

role actor Voice actor
Morel Gérard Depardieu Christian Brückner
Dr. Henri Ferret Victor Lanoux Norbert Langer
Elisabeth Nicole Calfan Susanna Bonaséwicz
Madame Colin Anna Gaylor Maria Koerber
Brigitte Denyse Roland Viola Sauer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dogs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ cf. cinema.de
  3. ↑ "A worthwhile, thoughtful film which deals with its large themes with surprising complexity." See Les Chiens on timeout.com
  4. ↑ The dogs. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on August 1, 2018 .