Double camouflage
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Double camouflage |
| Original title | Profile bas |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Claude Zidi |
| script |
Didier Kaminka Simon Michaël Claude Zidi |
| music | Gabriel Yared |
| camera | François Catonné |
| cut | Nicole Saunier |
| occupation | |
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Double Camouflage is a 1993 French police film directed by Claude Zidi .
action
The Paris police unit around Inspector Carre has long been hunting down Roche, the head of a gang of dealers. He can always escape and, even with the current mission, manages to dispose of the substance in good time before he is arrested. Carre is terribly upset about the incompetence of his people. His superior Plana in turn expresses the suspicion that there is a mole in Carre's group that Roche warns every time. Little does Plana suspect that Carre himself is the mole. He owes Roche's debt for putting him in the position he is now. With Roche, Carre is looking for a solution so as not to be suspected: he will deliver Plana to one of his men as a mole. His choice falls on the young police officer and ex-alcoholic Julien Segal, who has recently joined his unit and is noticeable for his listlessness and fatalism. Although he actually wanted to fire him with a very bad report card, Carre brings him back to the group. He uses him as an undercover agent. First, Julien is supposed to get to know the little gangster Ludo, who is supposed to introduce him to Roche's circles for a long time.
Julien goes to the Black Angel bar , where he first meets the young Claire. She flirts with him and they both arrange to meet again at the Black Angel the next day . Here Julien has a raid carried out in which the men are only supposed to arrest him. During the raid, he “escapes” and the police finally give up. Upon his return he will certainly have Ludo's attention. Julien's troop searches for him and locks him in a cold room so that he can reveal his identity, but Julien remains silent. In the end he is taken on a wild robbery through the streets of Paris by Ludo's men, has to take drugs and is even supposed to rape a woman, but he refuses. Because Julien is unable to drive because of the drugs, he ends up having Claire take him to his apartment. Claire's friend La Puce is allowed to take his motorcycle with him. However, La Puce is followed by two strangers and shot while driving. Meanwhile, Claire and Julien are sleeping together and Claire explains to him that everyone in the bar knows he is a cop. Ludo, but also the owner of the bar, were informed before his arrival that a police officer would appear and seek contact with Ludo. After the death of La Puce and a failed attempt to break into his apartment by the two murderers, Julien has become suspicious. He does not believe Carre's declaration that La Puce fell victim to a guerrilla war among dealers because he was actually behind the wheel. He refuses to be withdrawn from the case by Carre as he tries to find out why he should die.
He confronts Ludo, who does not take him seriously. Julien decides to act on her own now. He ambushes a shopping mall messenger and hides the money in a petty criminal's house. He then allegedly lets Carre and his men find the money through a tip from an informant. Next, Julien raids a gas station disguised with a plaster mask and commits eight more robberies in a week. Before Carre, he manages to assign all the attacks to a specific criminal who has allegedly lived in Canada for years. The robberies make Roche restless, as the police are increasingly looking for the perpetrator in his circles. Roche has his men put on Julien to reveal the name of the informant, but Julien is always one step ahead of his pursuers. He can force Ludo to break into a bank, but in the end he makes common cause with him and leaves him with all the money. In return, he learns from whom Ludo found out that Julien was a police officer. Julien finally announces to Carre another raid by the gangster, this time in a hospital. He also hired Ludo and his men for the break-in, in which the money from a money truck was to be stolen. While the real money messengers wait with Julien and a colleague with the money, the supposed coup with the arrests takes place outside the building. Julien succeeds in stealing the money almost unnoticed. A little later he calls Carre and arranges a meeting point with him at a waste incineration site. Here Carre appears with Roche. He admits Julien was supposed to die as a mole replacement. Julien demands that in the future he can live in peace and quiet far away from Paris - by having someone else die for him and he is therefore declared dead. Carre shoots Roche, whose body is turned over to the fire along with Julien's papers. In the hospital, on the other hand, Julien had organized a new ID. Some time later he lives with Claire under the name Fabrice in the mountains. Both are getting married here and will earn their living with the money that Julien stole from the robberies.
production
Double camouflage was filmed in Paris, among others. Clémentine Joya created the costumes and Françoise De Leu designed the film . It was the first film role for Sandra Speichert that had only appeared in a television series before.
The film was released in French cinemas on December 8, 1993, where it was seen by 624,472 visitors. In Germany it ran for the first time on October 24, 1997 on ARD .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Inspector Julien Segal | Patrick Bruel | Nicolas Boell |
| Carre | Didier Bezace | Udo Schenk |
| Plana | Jean Yanne | Klaus Sunshine |
| Roche | Jean-Louis Tribes | K. Dieter Klebsch |
| Ludo | Arnaud Giovaninetti | Andreas Fröhlich |
| Smile | Jean-Pierre Castaldi | Karl Schulz |
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , Double Camouflage was a “conventionally staged crime film with the usual ingredients, a little sex and violence, as well as simplistic characters.” “Flick-flack crime thriller without real impact,” said Cinema , and summarized: “Uneven mix Crime and l'amour ”.
Awards
Didier Bezace was nominated for a César in the Best Supporting Actor category in 1994.
Web links
- Double camouflage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Double camouflage in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ See allocine.fr
- ↑ Double camouflage. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Double camouflage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ See cinema.de