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| Movie | |
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| German title | Scaffold terminus |
| Original title | Deux hommes in la ville |
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| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1973 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | José Giovanni |
| script | Daniel Boulanger |
| production | Alain Delon |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Jean-Jacques Tarbès |
| cut | Françoise Javet |
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Endstation Schafott (original title: Deux hommes dans la ville ) is a French film drama from 1973. The film is also shown under the German alternative titles Zwei Männer in der Stadt and Der tödliche Kreis .
action
Germain Cazeneuve is an old, seasoned probation officer on the verge of retirement. He takes care of the newly released Gino Strabliggi. He had spent ten years in prison for bank robbery. Germain's family gives Gino a warm welcome. The released person is restricted by various residence bans - including for Paris - and has to report to the police regularly. Strabliggi tries to regain a foothold and find a job. He and his wife Sophie are often guests of Cazeneuve's family. With the death of his wife in a traffic accident, he first had to accept a severe blow of fate. He also resists the urges of his former accomplices to re-enter the criminal life. Cazeneuve found him a job in a print shop in Montpellier , where he now lives himself. He spends most of his free time with Cazeneuve's adult children Evelyne and Frédéric.
Gino slowly gets back on his feet and begins a new love affair with the bank clerk Lucie. But then one day he meets Inspector Goitreau at the police station, where he has to report regularly, who once arrested him and has now been transferred to Montpellier. Goitreau does not believe in Strabliggi's rehabilitation. He summons him, locks him up for two days and, during a house search, procures the address of gang leader Marcel, which Gino had given Gino during a meeting that Goitreau observed. Goitreau wants to accuse Strabliggi of complicity in a “big thing” of the gang - she is under surveillance and promptly falls into the trap of the police. Marcel is badly shot while being arrested. Goitreau suggests that Gino betrayed the coup. He also puts pressure on Lucie.
Goitreau pulls the noose around Ginos neck ever tighter, using provocation, slander and insult as a means. When Goitreau sexually harasses Lucie, Gino goes nuts and kills Goitreau in a fit of anger. Cazeneuve can't help Gino anymore. He is sentenced to death in a criminal trial for this murder. Appeal and appeals for mercy fail and Gino is executed with the guillotine . His defense lawyer and Cazeneuve accompany him to the end and witness the execution. When the disaffected Cazeneuve goes home after the execution, he says that he no longer believes in justice.
background
Giovanni saw his film as a plea against the death penalty , which was guillotined for the last time in France in 1977 - it was legally abolished there in 1981. In his youth, the director himself was involved with a gang in robberies in which three people were murdered. Giovanni was sentenced to death and pardoned thanks to his father's commitment. He was then imprisoned for ten years, like the main character in the film. Many of Giovanni's films are shaped by his own experiences and end with an execution. The young Gérard Depardieu appears in a supporting role .
In 2014 a remake with Forest Whitaker and Harvey Keitel was released under the title La voie de l'ennemi .
Reviews
"Giovanni's star-studded film offers effective entertainment, but lacks thoroughness and precision in the committed criticism of the prison system, police mentality, justice and the death penalty," said the lexicon of international film . For Prisma , the end of the line was Schafott "[e] in an oppressive and gripping mix of social thriller and gangster film, which is designed as a meticulously observed case study". The film has an "exact figure drawing" that makes it "slowly but steadily" more exciting.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Gino Strabliggi | Alain Delon | Christian Brückner |
| Germain Cazeneuve | Jean Gabin | Klaus W. Krause |
| Inspector Goitreau | Michel bouquet | Hans Korte |
| Lucie | Mimsy Farmer | Uschi Wolff |
| Evelyne Cazeneuve | Cécile Vassort | Marion Hartmann |
| Frédéric Cazeneuve | Bernard Giraudeau | Jürgen Clausen |
| Marcel | Victor Lanoux | Günther Ungeheuer |
| Chief of the printing company | Guido Alberti | Erik Jelde |
| Defense attorney Baudard | Malka Ribowska | Christa Berndl |
| Prosecutor | Jacques Monod | Günther Sauer |
| Judge | Jacques Rispal | Fred Klaus |
| Prison director | Armand Mestral | Herbert Weicker |
| Vautier, neighbor | Robert Castel | Erich Ebert |
| doctor | Patrick Lancelot | Manfred Seipold |
| Police chief | Pierre Collet | Harry Kalenberg |
Web links
- Terminus scaffold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Scaffold terminus at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Scaffold terminus in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the final stop on the scaffold - long version (partly original version with German subtitles) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2014 (PDF; test number: 46 311 V).
- ↑ See 20min.ch
- ^ Literatur-Couch Medien GmbH & Co. KG: José Giovanni . In: Krimi-Couch.de . ( krimi-couch.de [accessed on March 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Ronald Bergan: Obituary: José Giovanni. May 17, 2004, accessed March 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Straight from the underworld: José Giovanni is dead . In: The world . April 25, 2004 ( welt.de [accessed March 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Scaffold terminus. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Scaffold terminus on prisma.de, accessed on March 24, 2018.
- ↑ Scaffold terminus. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 31, 2018 .