Police action dynamite

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Movie
German title Police action dynamite ( Germany )
Point 10 happens ... ( GDR )
Original title Échec au porteur
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1957
length 86 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Gilles Grangier
script Pierre Véry
Noël Calef
Gilles Grangier
production Lucien Viard
music Jean Yatove
camera Jacques Lomare
cut Jacqueline Douarinou
occupation

Polizeiaktion Dynamit is a French crime film directed by Gilles Grangier in 1957. The film is based on the novel Échec au porteur by the French writer Noël Calef , who also co-wrote the screenplay. The German version of the novel was published in 1959 under the title Den Tod in der Hand (translated by Ralph von Stedman).

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A Parisian drug trafficking gang has disguised its criminal company as a tropical fruit import company. An ingeniously innocuous variant has also been devised for the delivery of the drugs: the cocaine is hidden in seemingly harmless footballs. One day the gang leader wants to use this method to get rid of an unpopular business partner. Instead of the usual drug load, a bomb is placed in the soccer ball, the chemical detonator of which is supposed to trigger a deadly explosion at exactly ten o'clock in the evening.

But the apparently surefire plan goes awry when the bomb soccer ball is mistaken for a real ball when it is handed over. The bomb falls into the hands of a playing boy who disappears into the alleys of Paris with his supposed toy. The gang leader is furious about the failed handover and has the messenger Bastien shot down by his murder accomplice. Bastien, who has wanted to get out of the drug business for a long time out of love for his girlfriend Jacqueline, is still dying to give a helpful truck driver the first clue about the infernal machine that is now somewhere in Paris.

The police begin a feverish search for the bomb and the drug trafficking gang. While the gang soon succeeds in tracking down the gang and eliminating its members one after the other, the soccer bomb is gone. Only after a long, grueling and varied scavenger hunt do the investigators succeed in winning the race against death and securing the ball in a hospital of all places. The ball is thrown into the park in front of the hospital, where it explodes without causing any damage.

Production and reception

In 1958 the film was licensed by Progress Film-Verleih for the GDR and dubbed by DEFA . The film was released in GDR cinemas on November 28, 1958, under the title It happens point 10… . On August 12, 1960, the film was broadcast for the first time on GDR television ( DFF 1 ).

In 1959 the film was also licensed for the Federal Republic of Germany . The West German cinema premiere took place on March 13, 1959; the film was given the sensational-sounding title Police Action Dynamite . Thus, neither of the two German versions was based on the French original title (translated as: failure in (the) handover ).

Horst Beseler wrote the following rating for the GDR film program: “An unusual, sensational criminal case. But it is also noteworthy and worth considering in a broader sense: as a parable of the horror to which crime can increase in the capitalist world and how terribly it can threaten the general public. "

Others

The main actor was dubbed by Rudolf Wessely, Gert Fröbe did not speak himself in the German version, but was spoken by Hans W. Hamacher. In 1963 Bavaria Atelier GmbH produced a television film based on the novel by Noël Calef, which is also the basis of the French theatrical version, the content of which is almost identical to the French version. Death in the Hand was broadcast on ZDF on December 21, 1963, directed by Fritz Umgelter , the script was written by Helmut Pigge , the music was composed by Peter Thomas . Wolfgang Reichmann , Karl Walter Diess , Heini Göbel , Gernot Duda and Lis Verhoeven played the leading roles .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Progress-Filmprogramm - No. 105/58, program booklet for It happens point 10… , ed. from VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin 1958, p. 2.