Gangsters die twice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Gangsters die twice |
| Original title | Gangsters '70 |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mino Guerrini |
| script |
Adriano Baracco Fernando Di Leo Mino Guerrini |
| production | Benito Bertaccini |
| music | Egisto Macchi |
| camera | Franco Delli Colli |
| cut | Enzo Micarelli |
| occupation | |
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Gangster Die Twice (original title: Gangster '70 ) is a crime film from Italian production, which Mino Guerrini directed in 1967. The film, which was also offered on video with the alternative title The Airport Coup , was released in cinemas in German-speaking countries on June 13, 1969.
action
The gangster Fabio Destil, who is committed to old values and who is aging himself, is released from prison. There, after years of meticulous planning, he prepared a coup that he is now carrying out: With five colleagues (including a world champion in sport shooting and Franca, a suicide-prone actress) he ambushes the plane and the people of an insurance company at an airport, from whom he has plundered millions want to lose weight in the form of rough diamonds. Disguised as police officers and supported by Franca as an alleged hostess, the gang succeeds in the attack. Destil's competitor Affattato, who refused to cooperate, tries after a successful coup to take the diamonds from the gangsters with brutal violence. Only Rudy the shooter and Franca escape the bloodbath. Rudy leaves Franca at the Yugoslavian border. Completely exhausted, he then loses the diamonds.
criticism
The lexicon of international films writes that it is “a gangster film that only slowly gets up to speed and at times very tough.” Michael Cholewa emphasizes the formal aspect of the “nihilistic neo-western”: (Director) “Guerrini easily manages the disgusting grimaces of his actors to be revealed in their failed and greedy inhumanity. He is supported by the wonderful pictures that cameraman Franco Delli Colli captured and his preference for unorthodox perspectives and settings. ”The Evangelical Film Observer also particularly appreciates the cameraman's performance, but also points out shortcomings:“ At the beginning A strong milieu and excellent photos, ultimately decaying into illogicality and cheap effects. "
Remarks
The German DVD of the film has been shortened by a few seconds.
Web links
- Gangster die twice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- cinema.de with a number of film images
- Entry in the synchronized file
- German cinema poster for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the entry in the Archivio del Cinema italiano , the title is Gangster '70
- ↑ Gangsters die twice. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Cholewa, Karsten Thurau: The Terror directs - The Italian gangster and police film. 1999, p. 67
- ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 307/1969