The Puppeteer (1980)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The puppeteer |
| Original title | Le Guignolo |
| Country of production | France , Italy |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Georges Lautner |
| script |
Michel Audiard , Jean Herman |
| production |
Alain Poiré Renzo Rossellini |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Henri Decaë |
| cut | Michelle David |
| occupation | |
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The puppeteer (original title: Le Guignolo ) is a film by Georges Lautner with Jean-Paul Belmondo from the year 1980 .
action
Alexandre Dupré is a cunning all-round thug. He uses his imprisonment leave to break into his home. A little later - dismissed for good conduct - he goes on a cruise ship to take out a rich American woman with counterfeit money . But she turns out to be an equally cunning fraudster - the diamonds given as security are also false. Together they both then want to exile Count Helmut von Offenburg. However, Alexandre's accomplice falls in love with the victim. Alone again, he is now planning to sell a fake Canaletto to a Japanese group of investors in Venice . As a favor, Alexandre takes a suitcase through customs for a fellow traveler , allegedly to hide the luggage from his jealous wife. However, this fellow traveler is murdered before the suitcase is returned. There is a secret formula in the suitcase, and Alexandre - who now calls himself Count de Valembreuse - is being hunted down by the police , gangsters and secret services . Of course he can deal with these opponents and in between he also finds time for pretty women. The film ends with the handover of the formula (with which an energy supply independent of petroleum seems possible) to the French authorities and an amnesty for Alexandre's most recent rip-offs.
criticism
“The Belmondo comedy is quite ironic and amusing at first, until it runs out of breath as the duration progresses. Nevertheless, thanks to numerous gags and dialogue points, an entertaining genre film overall. "
backgrounds
The Puppeteer wrote film history through the first use of a rifle with a target laser . The effect of the red point of light heralding death was later copied in countless films. In one famous scene in the film, Alexandre Dupre hovers over the rooftops of Venice on a trapeze attached to a helicopter . In another scene he races through the canals of the lagoon city with a motor yacht and crashes into the lobby of a hotel because the helmsman of the yacht is murdered during the journey (with the help of a target laser).
Web links
- The puppeteer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The puppeteer in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Puppeteer. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .