Heavy Traffic
- Joseph Kaufmann - Michael Corleone
- Beverly Hope Atkinson - Carole
Heavy Traffic ( Heavy Traffic ) is an animated film by Ralph Bakshi in the year 1973. Was first performed in the U.S. in August and in Europe in November in Sweden.
Action
The film tells the story of 22 -year-old Michael Corleone, an Italian- American New Yorker. Michael still lives with his parents, who fight because of the women's stories of his father Angelo "Angie". His mother Ida is a devout Jew. Michael's girlfriend Carole works as a bartender who repeatedly donated him drinks. Carole and Michael have an affair after Carole ended a relationship with the powerful, but legless Shorty. Both decide to Chicago to go to their luck in the local night clubs to find. Carole poses as a socialite and Michael makes the men to their attention. The business FLOPT However, since its first customer dies of a heart attack. Then Michael and Carole getting into the prostitution industry. The first customer is a businessman with a lot of money. Michael rushes a sign Caroles into the room and kills him with a steel pipe. Both disappear with the money, but Shorty has followed them, shoots Michael. The order was given by Angelo Corleone, because it is not good would look in his mafia family, if the family has to do with blacks. In the next scene we see Michael and Carole dancing through a park.
Production
In the film, much has been experimented with the drawing figures, to be acting in front of a real background. Often there are also scenes such as the Pinballsequenzen in which the characters are played by real actors. As an actor, act here Joseph Kaufmann as Michael Corleone and Beverly Hope Atkinson as Carole. This is one of the films, Ralph Bakshi, in which real and animated film are mixed. Another example of this is the movie Cool World where real people act in a cartoon world.
Publication
In Germany the film was released on VHS, on DVD in English, Italian and Yiddish ( Production year: 1973 ASIN 0792846818th ). In 2012, a DVD has been released in German language of WVG media.