La Balance

  • Nathalie Baye: Nicole Danet
  • Philippe Leotard: Dede Laffont
  • Richard Berry: Inspector Palouzi
  • Maurice Ronet: Roger Massina
  • Christophe Malavoy: Tintin
  • Jean -Paul Comart: " the Belgians "
  • Bernard Freyd, " the captain "
  • Albert Dray: Carlini
  • Florent Pagny: Simoni
  • Tchéky Karyo: Petrovic
  • Sam Karmann Paulo
  • Claude Villers: the patron of the "Oasis"

La Balance - The Betrayal is a French film directed by Bob Swaim police from the year 1982.

Action

Palouzi inspector is determined to bring the crime boss Massina to the track. When his spy is murdered, he sets Dede, a former gangster has become solid and his girlfriend Nicole, a prostitute, under massive pressure to put the two as a new spy on Massina.

Background

The film focuses on a new type of the date of the work of the police and some of their investigative methods on the edge of legality dar. He has a generation of young French actor paved the way to success: Nathalie Baye, Philippe Leotard and Richard Berry.

Criticism

For the lexicon of international film was La Balance - The betrayal of a " [t ] up eicher police drama that is neither formally nor in content strives to distance to the visual image, and thus gives the impression that he accept violence as a legitimate form of law enforcement. "

The Berlin city magazine tip rated the film when it first appeared very negative, among other things, on the grounds that it is racist and cliched. The writer Jörg Fauser, then a columnist at Tip wanted to oppose the one positive review. As the editor of the magazine prevented this, Fauser took this as an opportunity to end the employees at tip.

Awards

The film was in 1983 with three César Awards in the categories of Best Film, Best Actor ( Philippe Leotard ) and Best Actress ( Nathalie Baye ) excellent. Other nominations for the French film prize was in the categories of Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Young Actor ( Jean -Paul Comart and Tchéky Karyo ).

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