In the streets of the Bronx

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Movie
German title In the streets of the Bronx
Original title A Bronx Tale
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Robert De Niro
script Chazz Palminteri
production Robert De Niro,
Jane Rosenthal ,
Jon Kilik
music Butch Barbella
camera Reynaldo Villalobos
cut Robert Q. Lovett ,
David Ray
occupation

In the Streets of the Bronx is an American film directed by and with Robert De Niro from 1993.

action

In 1960 the Mafioso Sonny ruled an area in the Bronx in the neighborhood of the young Calogero Agnello. Calogero and his friends always play on the street after school, trying to imitate the gangsters who openly go about their business on the street. Calogero's friends are racists and hate black people even as children . When they are chasing a bus with a black man, Calogero is left alone for a moment and watches as Sonny shoots a man apparently because of an argument about a parking space. He does not reveal Sonny to the police when he confronts him. His father tells him that he did the right thing, and his confessor also confirms this.

Based on this event, a long-lasting bond develops between the gangster and the boy. Calogero's father, the honest bus driver Lorenzo Agnello, does not agree with this at all. He doesn't want to have anything to do with the Mafia and also rejects an offer from Sonny's for a lucrative but illegal extra income. The father drives his son through the Bronx on the bus and, when asked what one can do in life, explains to his boy: "You can do anything you want, the worst in life is wasted talent."

Calogero grows up to be a teenager under the care of the two men, father and gangster. Sonny tells the grown-up Calogero from Machiavelli's book The Prince and explains to him that he himself would rather be feared than loved by his subjects, since such a connection would be more permanent. Sonny also advises him to stay away from his useless friends. His friends, but also Calogero, are subsequently involved in theft, gun possession and racial battles.

Calogero falls in love with an African American girl in high school . This girl, Jane Williams, initially reciprocates, but a first date falls through. Friends of Calogero previously attacked black people when they were riding bicycles through the Italian quarter. Jane's brother was one of the victims, accusing Calogero, who actually tried to moderate his friends. The blacks in turn take revenge with an "egg attack". The friends want to take revenge for this again and drive their car and Molotov cocktails into their district. Calogero is initially in the car, but Sonny drives after them with his people, stops the car and angrily tells Calogero to get out.

Calogero then meets Jane and they make up. Meanwhile, Calogero's friends die after one of the blacks throws a Molotov cocktail back into their car and it burns out. When Calogero sees his slain friends, he realizes that Sonny saved his life that night. Then he goes to Sonny's bar to thank him. But Sonny himself is the victim of an assassination attempt, with which the son of the man shot in the opening sequence takes revenge, and dies of a gunshot wound. Calogero mourns the death of his foster father and Agnello also pays his respects to the laid out Sonny. In this way, father and son succeed in making peace with one another. A new mafioso, Carmine, then takes Sonny's place.

Remarks

  • The story, written by Chazz Palminteri , is semi-autobiographical. His real name is Calogero Lorenzo Palminteri.
  • In the Streets of the Bronx is Robert De Niro's first directorial work .
  • Although the film is set in the Bronx , almost all of the scenes were filmed in Astoria , Queens , New York . It was easier to capture the time period the film is set in there, as little had changed there since the 1950s. The street in front of Chez Bippy Bar is 30th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. A couple of scenes were filmed at William Cullen Bryant High School in Long Island City.
  • The film is dedicated to Robert De Niro's father, Robert De Niro, Sr. , who died in 1993.
  • In the period between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s, the standard of living in the Bronx deteriorated significantly and more poor black people moved to the neighborhood. This development, which caused tension on both sides due to racism, is hinted at in the film.
  • Leading actor Brancato became a drug addict and in December 2005 he tried to break into an apartment. His accomplice then shot a police officer. Brancato, who was initially also charged with murder, was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison without parole for attempted burglary. In a prison interview, he quoted the movie quote "The worst in life is wasted talent."

Awards and honors

criticism

“De Niro's film is obviously a tribute to Master Martin Scorsese. [...] In the streets of the Bronx is a deeply patriarchal, a wonderfully nostalgic and a beautiful film. "

- Silvia Hallensleben on www.filmzentrale.com.

“Robert De Niro is convincing on the one hand as an actor in the supporting role of the caring father and on the other hand as a debutant director. He managed to immerse himself "on location" in the time of the 1960s and tell a sensitive, exciting and extremely authentic story from the Bronx. "

"Original individual scenes, carefully reconstructed milieus and the coherent, ambivalent drawing of the gangster figure contrasts with a clumsy dramaturgy, the disadvantages of which are hardly outweighed by the good actors."

Trivia

On the cover and during the opening credits it can be read that the film may a. is presented by Silvio Berlusconi .

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974; ISBN 0-394-72024-5
  2. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=6908128&page=3
  3. In the Streets of the Bronx on prisma-online.de , accessed on November 2, 2011