The Code - Don't trust a thief

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Movie
German title The Code - Don't trust a thief
Original title Thick as Thieves
Country of production USA , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mimi leather
script Ted Humphrey
production Boaz Davidson
Lori McCreary
Danny Lerner
Les Weldon
Randall Emmett
music Atli Örvarsson
camera Julio Macat
cut Martin Nicholson
occupation

The Code (Original title Thick As Thieves ) is a crime film by Mimi Leder from 2009 . Morgan Freeman , Antonio Banderas and Radha Mitchell can be seen in the leading roles . The film premiered on January 9, 2009 in Taiwan . The film was released in the US as a direct-to-video production entitled The Code .

action

Notorious art thief Keith Ripley shoots Victor Korolenko at a bathing establishment in Brighton Beach .

Gabriel Martin follows two men to the New York Metro , where he steals these diamonds, and is watched by Ripley. This follows Gabriel into the subway . Gabriel wants to redeem the stolen diamonds from a fortune teller, but Ripley intervenes and takes them. Ripley makes Gabriel an offer for a joint coup.

Meanwhile, Gabriel gets to know Alex, with whom he gradually develops a relationship. The lawyer Alex is Ripley's goddaughter and, as Gabriel will only later find out, the daughter of the allegedly murdered Victor Korolenko, who was Ripley's former partner.

Ripley leads Gabriel to a museum, where he shows him the art treasures of the Romanovs . He lets Gabriel know about his plans to be his partner in the robbery of two Fabergé eggs from the vault of "Romanov Jewelers, Ltd.". Hardly anyone knows of the existence of the two eggs. Client Nicky Petrovich would pay them more than $ 20 million for each egg.

The "Romanov Jewelers Ltd." organized an event in honor of the NYPD , at which Ripley and Gabriel, disguised as police officers, were present to get an impression of the security system there. An authorized smart card is required to have access to the doors and elevator . The room in which the safe is located is equipped with sensitive motion detectors. The vault is also equipped with a biometric handprint scanner, a voice recognition sensor, an ultrasonic sensor inside the vault and an additional reinforced reinforced door.

Gabriel initially sees the theft of the Fabergé eggs from the inside of the two safes as an impossibility, but in the end he lets himself be persuaded to carry out the coup, especially after Alex is taken hostage by Nicky Petrovich and her life is threatened.

The next day, Ripley and Gabriel gain access to the Romanov building through a subway shaft. In the building they trigger an alarm to attach an iPod to the electronics of the surveillance camera so that the security guards' monitors do not show the live recordings, but video stills from the vaults. An overwhelmed security guard gives them the smart card they need to access the building's doors and elevator. They also outsmart the other security systems without any problems and finally crack the combination of numbers on the lock on the reinforced door. When Ripley holds the Fabergé eggs in his hands, Gabriel points his gun at Ripley, forces him to hand over the loot and explains to him that he is a Miami cop who is undercover. Gabriel escapes the building with the eggs, while Ripley remains trapped in the vault.

Gabriel then hands the Fabergé eggs over to Nicky Petrovich, who in return releases Alex. At police headquarters, the head of the investigation, Lieutenant Weber, Gabriel brings prisoner Nicky Petrovich in front of him, who, it turns out, is not the one to whom Gabriel handed the two Fabergé eggs. The "wrong" Nicky Petrovich is really Victor Korolenko. This was not actually murdered by Ripley, but merely shot to give the appearance of a fatal assassination attempt.

Keith Ripley is acquitted with the help of his attorney Alex for lack of evidence because Ripley had made a deal with security guard Zykov. Zykov cleared the entire vault, so that there is no evidence against Ripley that he stole anything, as nothing is officially known of the existence of the art treasures in the vault.

Ripley calls Gabriel briefly before his departure and explains to him that he knew about the transfer from Miami before he arrived in New York. Furthermore, Ripley knew that Gabriel is a police officer and could therefore use him for the theft. Finally he says that the real Nicky Petrovich and Zykov, who are both art smugglers, have since gone underground and that he and Victor Korolenko will leave the country. What remains is the lawyer Alex, who, despite all the lies before, confesses her love to Gabriel.

background

Mimi Leder directed the production, and Ted Humphrey wrote the script . Martin Nicholson was responsible for the editing. The film was shot in New York City and Sofia . Production costs were estimated at $ 25 million.

The film was released in Taiwan on January 9, 2009. This was followed by DVD releases in Great Britain on February 16, 2009 and in the USA on June 23, 2009. The DVD was released in Germany on October 18, 2010. In addition, the film was broadcast for the first time on July 18, 2012 in Germany on free TV on Sat.1 . The film has also been shown in cinemas in Japan, Greece and Portugal.

Soundtrack

The music track Nas ne dogonjat and its English version Not Gonna Get Us by TATu can be heard in the film. The Russian version runs in the bar where Gabriel and Alex meet, the English version at the end of the film. Here you can also hear an electronic version of the Tetris theme, which comes from the Network Red group . The title of this version is Russian Melody .

synchronization

actor German speaker role
Antonio Banderas Bernd Vollbrecht Gabriel Martin
Morgan Freeman Klaus Sunshine Keith Ripley
Radha Mitchell Claudia Lössl Alexandra Korolenko
Robert Forster Reinhard Glemnitz Lieutenant Weber
Marianne Stanicheva Dagmar Dempe Madame Irina
Tom Hardy Oliver Mink Michaels
Rade Šerbedžija Gudo Hoegel Nicky Petrovich / Victor Korolenko
Marcel Iureș Michael Schwarzmaier Zykov

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for The Code - Don't trust a thief . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2009 (PDF; test number: 121 035 V).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Internet Movie Database : Start Dates
  3. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Filming Locations
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database : Budget and Box Office Results
  5. ↑ Don't trust a thief Sat.1 , accessed on July 18, 2012
  6. ^ Internet Movie Database : Soundtrack
  7. ↑ The Code - Don't trust a thief. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 21, 2012 .

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