Under fire

Movie
German title	Under fire
Original title	Les Insoumis
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	2008
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Claude-Michel Rome
script	Olivier Dazat Claude-Michel Rome
production	Etienne Comar Philippe Rousselet
music	Frédéric Porte
camera	Jean-Marc Fabre
cut	Stéphanie Mahet
occupation
Richard Berry : Vincent Drieu Pascal Elbé : Jean-Ba Zabou Breitman : Commissioner Vasseur Aïssa Maïga : Kathia Bernard Blancan : Pierre Wazemme Éric Godon : Johan Pauwels Guilaine Londez : Mireille Moussa Maaskri : Manu Frédéric Saurel : Rémy Andréani Nadia Fossier : Léa Fercocq Gérald Laroche : Abel Vargas Jean-Louis Loca : Raphaël Farge Aure Atika : Marianne

Under fire (alternative title: Crossfire , original title: Les Insoumis ) is a French thriller by Claude-Michel Rome from 2008 .

action

Former elite police officer Vincent Drieu is being transferred to an isolated police station in Saint-Merrieux in south-eastern France, which will be demolished within three months. There he is received by a demotivated team, which is led by Commissioner Vasseur and has long since made a lucrative peace with the local underworld. Vasseur, who is six months pregnant, tells Drieu that the prevailing lethargic idyll should not be disturbed by his arrival. However, this does not correspond to Drieu's ideas about police work, and so the incorruptible policeman, who investigates every small case, quickly makes countless enemies and initially meets with little approval from his colleagues. But little by little the other police officers join his fight against organized crime. When the police force arrested Raphaël Farge, a major underworld figure, they were suddenly confronted with a large number of heavily armed criminals. So it comes to a bloody showdown around the rundown police station, in which the policewoman Kathia is shot by a gangster and Vasseur turns out to be an accomplice and lover of Farge.

criticism

Andreas Neuenkirchen summed up on The Manifesto that the film was "intelligent robber-and-gendarme cinema that does not reinvent the genre, but takes it seriously and does not fool its viewers". Prisma , on the other hand, described the film as a “cliché-laden directorial work by the French crime specialist Claude-Michel Rome, who added a lot of action to his work, but seems to have lost sight of the script and its coherence”. Richard Berry is convincing "as a disaffected cop", but such stories have "been seen more often and, above all, better". The film service saw a "cop thriller with convincing actors and a good dose of black humor". The bonds with Assault - attack at night and other genre films are "unmistakable", "despite a lack of originality and drastic peaks of violence" it offers due to its "solid staging but some entertainment value".

background

Under attack was in Martigues rotated. In France the film was released on June 11, 2008, in Germany it was released directly on DVD under the distribution title Crossfire .

Web links

• Under attack in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Under attack in the online film database
• Under attack in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for under fire . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 173 V).
2. ↑ movie review , dasmanifest.com
3. ^ Film review , Prisma
4. ^ Film review , film service
5. ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb
6. ↑ Publication according to IMDb