Doberman Pinscher (film)
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| German title | Doberman Pinscher |
| Original title | Doberman Pinscher |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Jan Kounen |
| script | Joël Houssin |
| production |
Frédérique Dumas-Zajdela Éric Névé |
| music |
Brune Jean-Jacques Hertz Philippe Mallier François Roy |
| camera | Michel Amathieu |
| cut |
Bénédicte Brunet Eric Carlier |
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Dobermann is a French film directed by Jan Kounen from 1997 with Vincent Cassel and Tchéky Karyo . After its release on video in 1998, the film was indexed on July 31, 1999 by the Federal Examination Office for Media Harmful to Young People . The list was deleted on February 10, 2011 and the film has been available in stores as an uncut version since April 15, 2011.
action
The unscrupulous criminal Doberman is the leader of a gang of bank robbers. These include a. his deaf and mute girlfriend Nathalie, the nervous Moustique and the unpredictable pit bull . By triggering false alarms, the gang succeeds in employing almost all of the police forces in the city in order to gain time with two actual bank robberies that are carried out immediately one after the other. So only a few police officers stand in their way, two of whom they murder and take another hostage, after which they can successfully escape the rest of the officers.
However, the brutal and unscrupulous inspector Christini manages to locate the gang member Olivier, who also appears as a transvestite Sonia. He threatens to kill his infant son if he doesn't help him track down the Doberman . Under this compulsion, Olivier as Sonia attends a party in a discotheque where the other gang members are. When they appear, he alerts Christini to a broadcaster, who storms the discotheque. Christini arrests some gang members, but some are able to break free. After Sonia was exposed as a mole by Christini , she leaves the club and two of the gang members catch up with her in their car. The Doberman manages to escape into a screened cellar under the discotheque. However, when he sees on surveillance monitors how Christini shoots the arrested pit bull in cold blood and then drives away in a car with his girlfriend Nathalie to rape her, he leaves cover and follows the inspector with a stolen ambulance. He succeeds in catching up with him and boarding his car after a fight to push Christini's head onto the asphalt at high speed in revenge for his friends who were killed. Afterwards Christini is left lying badly disfigured, seriously injured or dead. The remaining members bury Sonia-Olivier, only his drag identity is now "dead".
The last shot of the film shows a crosshair aimed from a bird's-eye view of the gang's convertible driving away , backed by helicopter noises and a radio conversation from which it emerges that “the fire has now been released”.
background
Jan Kounen was looking for a story for his first film in the mid-1990s when he came across the book series Le Dobermann by Joël Houssin . He contacted Houssin and suggested a film adaptation of the material.
Jan Kounen and his friend, director Gaspar Noé, can each be seen in short cameo appearances .
Reviews
While the film is considered a cult film by fans , Dobermann received average to sometimes devastating reviews in classic media.
“A gangster film based on American models that tries to surpass them in terms of brutality. The digital effects, adventurous costumes and incessantly outbid acts of violence cannot compensate for its emptiness and insubstantiality. "
“The trigger-happy hero comes from a French trash novel series that inspired the Belgian director Jan Kounen to create a gloomy trash look: fast-paced, smooth and larger than life, staged with unmistakable talent and definitely a case for the big screen. That's nice. What is less nice is that the film remains trapped in its origins: ultimately pubescent and boastful action cinema that does not leave out any genre standard: from psycho cops to fetish parties, everything has been seen better. "
“Blood orgies like in a horror film, advertising clip aesthetics and loveless handling of the characters leave the viewer angry. Kounen sells his way of working as a renunciation of 'lacquered handicrafts'. "
“After its release in 1997, 'Doberman' was scolded on all sides as a voyeuristic orgy of violence and an insult to good taste. This assessment can hardly be contradicted to this day, as it hits the nail on the head. But attributes such as 'modern classic' and 'masterpiece of confrontational high-gloss trash' also fit. 'Doberman' is painful, strenuous and is simply an incomparably intense experience. A film as it is in the book - namely in the criminal code! "
“The film is bursting with violence stylized in the MTV video clip aesthetic, the characters are comic-like distorted caricatures, the lines between good and bad are no longer even blurred. The "Dobermann" is an aggressive, hectic blend of ' Natural Born Killers ', ' Delicatessen ' and set pieces of the Spaghetti Western, a real young people film for the 90s. ... In its desperate effort to achieve high speed and chic style, the film rushes along irrelevantly and smoothly. "
“In terms of content, Jan Kounen certainly did not invent the wheel with his debut, but nobody expects that from a genre film with the exploitation quotient of 'Doberman'. The fact that after ' Love and a 45 ', ' True Romance ' and ' Natural Born Killers ' it is still so much fun to watch this meditation on the stressed topic of gangster couple running amok is not only due to the committed actors and the technical class who looks downright frighteningly lacquered for a debut. Rather, it is the many small deviations from the American template that refine 'Dobermann' to that successful mixture that makes a sworn genetic republic forget all contenance and cheer loudly in the middle of the dark hall (as happened most recently at the Fantasy Film Festival in Munich). Of course, this is not for every taste. The FSK lady who had to throw up at 'Man bites dog' is allowed to put the paper tissues within reach. "
Web links
- Doberman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doberman Pinscher in the online movie database
- Dobermann in the German dubbing index
- Doberman Pinscher image gallery at jankounen.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Doberman Pinscher . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2011 (PDF; test number: 79 443 V).
- ↑ a b Dobermann down from the index and soon on Blu-ray at dvd-palace.de, accessed on April 17, 2011
- ↑ Ahead of its time - In conversation with Jan Kounen about Dobermann at deadline-magazin.de, accessed on April 17, 2011
- ↑ Doberman Pinscher. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Film review at cinema.de
- ↑ Film review at rhein-zeitung.de
- ↑ Film review at filmstarts.de
- ↑ movie review at filmtext.com ( Memento of 14 August 2007 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Film review at kino.de