Wages of the giants
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Wages of the giants |
| Original title | La menace |
| Country of production | France , Canada |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 117 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Corneau |
| script | Daniel Boulanger , Alain Corneau, Claude Hopkins |
| production | Léo L. Fuchs Richard Hellman Jean-Pierre Martel |
| music | Gerry Mulligan |
| camera | Pierre-William Glenn |
| cut | Henri Lanoë |
| occupation | |
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Wages of the Giants is a French crime film by Alain Corneau from 1977. Yves Montand plays the leading role of Henri Savin in a love triangle.
action
For his beautiful Canadian Julie, Henri, head of a logistics company , would leave his depressed long-term lover Dominique on the spot. When the relationship is exposed, Dominique follows her rival to a remote place. She offers her money if she never sees Henri again. When that doesn't work, Dominique throws herself to her death. The investigating police officer Waldeck does not believe in suicide. So Julie quickly comes under suspicion of murder. To save Julie, Henri forges an ingenious plan. He lures the police on his trail by faking clues . Julie is actually released. Henri escapes to Canada. He wants to fake his death, bring Julie to Canada and start a new life with her there under a false identity. To do this, he stages a traffic accident with a tanker truck in which he appears to be killed and burned completely. But since he portrayed the accident as the result of extortion within the trucker scene, several truck drivers who had previously organized themselves chase after him on his escape and finally crush him in his car. On the flight to Canada, Julie reads about his death in the newspaper and says that the plan worked.
Background information
The thriller has an estimated budget of $ 2.4 million.
Two-thirds of the shooting, which lasted 3 months, took place in France - among other things, the location is the Citadel of Blaye - and one third in Vancouver , Canada . Alain Corneau wanted to create a completely opposite atmosphere compared to the first section.
Awards
Marie Dubois won the César for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 .
criticism
The lexicon of international films ruled that the film was “brilliantly staged […]”, but that “questions about vigilante justice and the manipulation of the truth” were not subjected to any reflection.
The TV feature film praises the action finale in the VW Beetle, among other things: “ Great: In the last 25 minutes, when Henri is planning his big exit, the film gets by with almost no dialogue, and it ends with a first-class action finale in the VW Beetle. Clever suspense with a tragic note. "
Web links
- La Menace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wages of the giants in the synchronous database
- The giants' wages on arte.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Menace in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ IMDb locations
- ↑ http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-12451/secrets-tournage/
- ↑ IMDb Awards
- ↑ http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-12451/palmares/
- ↑ Wages of the Giants in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ The giants' wages on TV-Spielfilm.de