The gangster's doll

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Movie
German title The gangster's doll
Original title La pupa del gangster
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1975
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Giorgio Capitani
script Ernesto Gastaldi
Cornell Woolrich
production Carlo Ponti
music Piero Umiliani
camera Alberto Spagnoli
cut Renato Cinquini
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The gangster's doll (original title: La pupa del gangster ) is an Italian-French comedy in technicolor , in which Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni played the lead roles, directed by Giorgio Capitani .

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Stand-up collar Charlie, who watches the street prostitutes who buy for him with the helicopter, discovers a new one, "Pupa", in his "Revier". With his bodyguard Chopin, who assigns Pupa to the competitor Hamlet, he clears them out of the way. Chopin kidnaps Pupa when she hardly makes any money at her newly assigned stand. The police superintendent Salvatore who happened to be present takes up the chase and reads the pupa thrown out of the car, but who only wants to go back to her campfire at the stand.

Charlie, who doesn't allow any questions, now lets her perform as a dancer in his nightclub; however, clumsiness happens to her on the debut. Since she is now wearing a different, red-brown wig, Charles sees a strong resemblance in her to his teenage crush Rita Hayworth and has to perform the act on her immediately . Charlie instructs her to be his lover from now on, lets her live in luxury, but becomes violent towards her. When Anna got out of a cake for his birthday, she reminded him more of Rita Hayworth than Pupa and Anna was from then on his “object of desire”.

Two months later, at 4 a.m., he urges Pupa to give him the alibi for having been with her from 3 a.m., calls Chopin over and tells him to have shot Anna, who pointed a gun at him and wrested it from her wanted: Anna didn't want to leave her released fiancé and take Pupa's place because of him. Pupa can overhear the story in the bathroom and sees an opportunity to get rid of Charlie. She calls the eager American Hotel and is put through to Anna's fiancé Franco. She can be called Anna's address as “legitimation” and advises Franco to get out of town: his life is in danger and Anna “has already left”. Chopin arrives at the hotel with the task of getting Franco's fingerprints on the pistol. He meets the departing person in the elevator, drops the pistol, claims that it is a lighter and that he cannot bend down because of the war, and so he achieves his goal. Following Charlie's instructions, he puts the pistol next to the dead Anna, leaves the apartment key on the outside of the door and calls the police. Only then does it occur to him that he forgot to remove Charlie's lighter from the apartment. Pupa has since discovered this in the apartment and has taken it for herself; Chopin can't find it. Charlie therefore goes to the apartment himself, to which Pupa has also returned to lay clues about Charlie. In order not to be discovered by him in her hiding place under the bed, she puts the lighter on the carpet.

The clues put the investigators under Salvatore on Charlie's trail. Chopin and Charlie, however, come across Pupa as a clue, whose life is now forfeited. She is supposed to be executed outside the home. Savatore rides on the roof rack , but is noticed and should be thrown. An extremely adventurous journey comes to an end for Pupa in the ambulance with Salvatore as her companion, who confesses to her that he liked her from the start. Pupa visits Charlie and Chopin in prison and informs them that she has become the elected general secretary of a prostitute self-government.

criticism

"With a lot of grotesque clowning and solid slapstick comedy, director Giorgio Capitani targets gangster films of the" black series "."

- daserste.de.

“Since the“ Threepenny Opera ”, the underworld has functioned as a mirror cabinet of the big wide world of free market economy. So the red message also reaches an audience that doesn't enjoy Brecht: The gangsters are of course an honorable company with a supervisory board. And the film shows. how the power of capital is overcome: through company occupation - in this case the car dash - and collective self-management. "

- .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film Service
  2. ↑ at Daserste.de ( Memento from April 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Hans-Georg Behr: Fluttering underpants. In: Der Spiegel . April 28, 1975, p. 156

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