La Balance - The betrayal
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | La Balance - The betrayal |
| Original title | La balance |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bob Swaim |
| script | Bob Swaim Mathieu Fabiani |
| production |
Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine for Les Films Ariane |
| music |
Boris Bergman Roland Bocquet Luc Laffite Jean-François Leroi |
| camera | Bernard Zitzermann |
| cut | Françoise Javet |
| occupation | |
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La Balance - The betrayal is a French cop movie of Bob Swaim from the year 1982 .
action
Inspector Palouzi, the head of a special police unit in plain clothes in the Paris district of Belleville , is determined to bring down the gang boss Massina. When his informer ( referred to as “balance” in the Argot ) is murdered, he puts Dédé, a former gangster who has become solid, and his girlfriend Nicole, a prostitute, under massive pressure to put them two as new informers on Massina. However, Palouzi's plan to try to convict and arrest the gangster with her help gets out of hand, and a shooting occurs between police and gangsters with victims among the bystanders in the middle of a busy intersection.
background
The film portrays the work of the police and some of their investigative methods on the verge of legality ( coercion , assault ) in a semi-documentary way that was new at the time of its appearance in French films . It depicts a brutal and merciless reality and the importance of denunciation for the French police system .
La Balance - The betrayal paved the way to success for a generation of young French actors: Nathalie Baye , Philippe Léotard , Tchéky Karyo and Richard Berry .
criticism
For the lexicon of international films , La Balance - Der Verrat was a "[t] high-profile police film, which neither formally nor in content tries to distance itself from the portrayed and thus gives the impression that it accepts violence as a legitimate form of law enforcement."
The Berlin city magazine Tip rated the film very negatively when it appeared, among other things on the grounds that it was racist and clichéd. The writer Jörg Fauser , then a columnist at Tip , wanted to counter this with a positive review. When the editor of the magazine prevented this, Fauser took this as an opportunity to end his work at Tip .
For the film historian Hans Gerhold, the film is “not a song of praise to the police, but a portrayal of complacent cynicism”. Ultimately, despite all the authenticity and atmospheric coherence, it leaves an ambivalent impression.
Awards
The film was awarded three Césars in 1983 in the categories of Best Picture , Best Actor (Philippe Léotard) and Best Actress (Nathalie Baye). There were further nominations for the French Film Prize in the categories of Best Director , Best Original Screenplay and Best Young Actor (Jean-Paul Comart and Tchéky Karyo).
literature
- Hans Gerhold: cinema of looks. The French crime film . S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. Main 1989, ISBN 3-596-24484-6 , pp. 212-213
- René Ruppert: La Balance - The betrayal. In: Norbert Groh: Film genres: Film noir . Reclam, Ditzingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-15-018552-0 , pp. 303-306.
Web links
- La Balance - The Betrayal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Balance - The Treason. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Matthias Penzel / Ambros Waibel : Rebel in the Cola hinterland - Jörg Fauser. The biography . Edition TIAMAT, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89320-076-2 .
- ↑ Hans Gerhold: Kino der Blick , p. 213