Roberto Succo (film)

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Movie
German title Roberto Succo
Original title Roberto Succo
Country of production France
Switzerland
original language French
Italian
English
German
Publishing year 2001
length 124 minutes
Rod
Director Cédric Kahn
script Cédric Kahn
production Ruth Waldburger
music Julien Civange
camera Pascal Marti
cut Yann Dedet
occupation

Roberto Succo is a French - Swiss thriller directed by Cédric Kahn from 2001.

It is based on the book Je te do. Histoire vraie de Roberto Succo assassin sans raison by Pascale Froment , which deals with the last years of the serial killer Roberto Succo (1962–1988).

action

In 1981 the police found a couple brutally murdered in a bathtub near Venice . The killer is her son, Roberto Succo, who is arrested and sent to a mental institution. Five years later, Succo is in France. Under the name Kurt, he met 16-year-old student Léa on the Côte d'Azur . He pretends to be 19 years old and claims to be English and later to work as a secret agent for Scotland Yard . Only in response to Léa's questions does he admit that he is really Italian . Both spend the holiday season together before Léa goes back to Annecy .

A little later the police find the police officer Fayolle shot dead. Léa and Succo meet again in Annecy. She is there when he tries to ambush a taxi driver at night, but he escapes. The police, including investigator Thomas, are investigating more and more cases. The young Françoise has disappeared, as has the lawyer Paillet. The police initially suspect that Paillet and Françoise fled together because the car that the taxi driver recognized belonged to Paillet; There was also a woman in the car. The car is later found abandoned by a lake.

Succo and Léa meet again on his birthday. Succo gives Léa an engagement ring. When he is alone, he says that their mutual love is impossible. A little later he leaves his current car behind in a traffic accident; the police found goods from various thefts in the vehicle. The trace of numerous murders and break-ins shows that one perpetrator keeps commuting across the country. When they meet again, Succo Léa confesses that he killed his parents and escaped from prison. A little later he kidnaps a woman, but lets her go. He shoots a man and kidnaps a woman and her son, but is surprised and followed by the police. He can escape. Thomas states that the perpetrator must be crazy. Interpol is now involved in the search, even if an international arrest warrant is rejected by the responsible judge. Léa meanwhile, Succo's behavior becomes more and more sinister. When she discovers a weapon on him, he gets violent. She separates from him.

In the fall, a body identified as Paillet, a lawyer, is found; he must have been murdered before the summer. Shortly thereafter, investigators find another body. Meanwhile, Succo gets violent in a disco and shoots a man. Succo may be cornered by the testimony of three women. He shoots two police officers and escapes. During the house search, Thomas finds numerous weapons and photos that show Succo in different presentations. Succo meanwhile wants to leave the country. He kidnaps a teacher with whom he escapes to Switzerland. Here both break through several police barriers before the woman can save herself. Succo escapes to Italy. In France, meanwhile, Léa sees Succo's mug shot and reports to the police. She is taken into custody and eventually taken to Paris for her own protection. Through their testimony, the perpetrator can be identified as Roberto Succo. The French investigators received his files from Italy. A little later Succo is arrested in Italy. He admits small crimes in Italy, but refuses to testify to the French investigators. He does not comment on Françoise's whereabouts, even though he admits he murdered six people (three policemen, Paillet, a woman [and Françoise]). Shortly after his first questioning, Succo's body is discovered; he killed himself in his cell by suffocating himself with a plastic bag.

production

Roberto Succo was given the working title Je te tue and Kurt in France - u. a. Annecy, Marseille, Talloires - filmed in Switzerland and Italy. Nathalie Raoul created the costumes and François Abelanet designed the film . A central song in the film is Sleep by Marianne Faithfull .

The film premiered on May 14, 2001 at the Cannes International Film Festival . On May 16, 2001 it ran in French cinemas, where it was seen by around 159,000 viewers. On January 31, 2002, it was also released in German-speaking Switzerland.

criticism

The critics described the film as "conventionally made" and found that it stuck to "aesthetically too much of the dozen of things known from television". You hardly learn anything about the figure of the murderer. Other critics attested the film “the level of a better ' crime scene '”; the “emphasized objectivity does not gain a stylistically convincing form in this film.” The world found that the film “lacks the creative hand of the director. Kahn has no opinion of the (true) story of the violent psychopath Succo. ”The film found itself“ too deeply entangled in reality, in a sequence of senseless and violent events that, even in retrospect, no longer want to fit into a story ” the Süddeutsche Zeitung . For the Frankfurter Rundschau it was "[incomprehensible] what brought Cédric Khan's Roberto Succo into the competition [= Cannes], so powerless, so unimaginatively, the 'true story' of the Italian parent murderer is told for two hours".

Cassetti in the main role is a "debutant with enormous charisma", praised the Saarbrücker Zeitung .

Awards

In Cannes 2001 the film was shown in the competition for the Palme d'Or . In the same year Roberto Succo was nominated for a Gold Hugo for Best Feature Film at the Chicago International Film Festival .

In 2002 the film received two César nominations: in the categories of Best Young Actor (Stefano Cassetti) and Best Young Actress (Isild Le Besco)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roberto Succo on allocine.fr
  2. ↑ Beat Glur: 54th Cannes International Film Festival. Productions and fabrics from Switzerland . In: sda - Swiss Dispatch Agency , May 15, 2001.
  3. ↑ What could attract you to the cinema in the next few months . In: Basler Zeitung , May 19, 2001.
  4. ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek: leeches in addition to self-exploration . In: Die Welt , May 15, 2001, p. 29.
  5. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: The hairdresser's wife . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 16, 2001, p. 18.
  6. ↑ Peter Körte: The joys of amnesia . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 18, 2001, p. 17.
  7. ↑ Tobias Kessler: A hairdresser saves Cannes . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , May 16, 2001.