Choice of weapons
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Choice of weapons |
| Original title | Le Choix of the poor |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alain Corneau |
| script | Alain Corneau, Michel Grisolia |
| production | Alain Sarde |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Pierre-William Glenn |
| cut | Thierry Derocles |
| occupation | |
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Choice of Arms (Original title: Le Choix des armes ) is a French gangster film with Yves Montand , Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu from 1981.
action
The two gangsters Mickey and Serge manage to escape from a prison at night. Hot-headed Mickey kills two police officers. Her escape assistant Ricky then leads her to an abandoned courtyard. However, the planned hiding place turns out to be a trap: Ricky had betrayed them both to a gang and flees. Serge is badly wounded in the hail of bullets, while Mickey shoots one of his opponents. Serge persuades Mickey to take him to his brother Noël, who was once also a criminal but now lives as a horse breeder with his young wife Nicole on a remote estate. Serge dies of his injuries shortly after the two escapes arrive at Noël's. Mickey eventually demands money from Noël to disappear for a few days. When Mickey returns to the stud, the police happen to be at the door. However, he is able to prevent his arrest by the police officers Bonnardot and Sarlat and escape again. Believing Noël betrayed him, Mickey swears revenge.
After Mickey threatened Noël and his guests at dinner and shot wildly, Noël decides to put his wife Nicole in a safe hotel. He contacts some old accomplices to help him get his unpredictable adversaries out of the way. As a result, he finds the drug addict Ricky who helps him to find Mickey. Meanwhile, he worries about his little daughter, whom he hardly knows. The girl's mother took her own life while Mickey was in prison. Shortly after Mickey visits his daughter again, he sees Noël and Ricky drive past the house. Mickey now believes Noël is up to something against his daughter. Bonnardot and Sarlat meanwhile track down Nicole when she leaves her hotel and drives back to the stud. At night Mickey appears there too and takes Nicole under his control. After a phone call with Noël, Nicole can calm the gangster down. At the same time, the ambitious young policeman Sarlat arrives at Nöels Gut. While trying to arrest Mickey, Nicole is accidentally shot by the nervous Sarlat. Mickey in turn manages to escape again.
Noël, who mistakenly thinks Mickey is his wife's murderer, is now also driven by thirst for revenge. After finding Mickey's new hiding place, he finds him there with his daughter. Out of consideration for the little girl, Noël cannot bring himself to kill Mickey. Shortly thereafter, Mickey tries to rob a bank with an accomplice named Dany, but is badly gunshot. Noël, who shadowed the two, takes him away from the crime scene. The two men speak in an unoccupied house. After Noël left the house and drove away, the police arrived there. Before Noël can return to the scene, there is an exchange of fire between Mickey and Sarlat, in which Mickey is fatally hit by a bullet from behind. When Sarlat ran out of bullets, Noël took him into his power and left the premises with him. The policeman now fears for his life, but Noël only wants to teach him a lesson. He grabs him and shoots his revolver five times right next to Sarlat's face. Noël then decides to take care of Mickey's daughter.
background
The film marks the third and final collaboration between director Alain Corneau and Yves Montand and was also the first of three collaborations between the filmmaker and Gérard Depardieu . He had already made the film Vincent, François, Paul and the others ( Vincent, François, Paul et les autres ) with Montand in 1974 and a year earlier together with Catherine Deneuve in François Truffaut's The Last Metro ( Le Dernier Metro , 1980) before the Camera stood.
The shooting took place from January to March 1981, among other places northeast of Paris in La Courneuve .
Choice of Arms premiered in France on August 19, 1981 . In Germany , the film was first seen in cinemas on October 30, 1981. In 2007 it was released on DVD as part of the “SZ Cinemathek Série Noire 12”. In 2010 it was also released on DVD by Kinowelt .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , Wahl der Waffen was a "[tough] gangster film with a good effect and a humane message and an excellent cast". Director Alain Corneau staged it "excitingly and at a high level". According to Cinema , the film is “a crackling noir crime thriller” and at the same time “a great psychodrama with bomb cast”.
German version
The German dubbing was created for the first German release in the cinema (October 30, 1981).
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Noel Durieux | Yves Montand | Holger Hagen |
| Mickey | Gérard Depardieu | Manfred Lehmann |
| Nicole Durieux | Catherine Deneuve | Evelyn Gressmann |
| Bonnardot | Michel Galabru | Franz-Otto Kruger |
| Sarlat | Gérard Lanvin | Ronald Nitschke |
| Dany | Richard Anconina | Joachim Tennstedt |
| Ricky | Jean-Claude Dauphin | Frank Glaubrecht |
| Jean | Christian Marquand | Horst Schön |
| Serge Olivier | Pierre Forget | Mogens von Gadow |
| Fernand | Roland Blanche | Friedrich G. Beckhaus |
| Savin | Marc Chapiteau | Ortwin Speer |
| Andre | Jean-Claude Bouillaud | Peter Schiff |
| Boxing coach | Guy Mairesse | Karl Schulz |
Web links
- Choice of weapons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Chiesi: Gérard Depardieu . Gremese Editore, 2005, ISBN 88-7301-591-3 , p. 108.
- ↑ cf. ville-la-courneuve.fr
- ↑ Choice of weapons. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ Choice of weapons. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .