The Police Serve the Citizens?

• Enrico Maria Salerno: Commissioner Nicola Sironi
• Giuseppe Pambieri: Commissioner Marino
• John Steiner: Lambro
• Venantino Venantini: Mancinelli
• Alessandro Momo: Michele Sironi
• Memmo Carotenuto: The Baron
• Marie Sophie Persson: Cristina
• Daniel Gélin: engineer Pier Paolo Brera
• Gabriella Giorgelli: Eros, prostitutes
• Claudio Nicastro: Sheriff
• Cinzia Bruno

Losing Battle (Original title: La polizia è al servizio del cittadino, such as: "? Police is at the service of the citizen " ) is an Italian- French thriller from 1973, Romolo Guerrieri the staged. The film was first shown on 29 December 1989 as a TV report in German-speaking countries; Alternative title is the ultimate proof.

Action

A man is hanged from a crane in the port of Genoa; Commissioner Sironi, estranged from his son and mired in conflict, takes on the investigation and must be accountable repeatedly restricted by regulations. He finds a gang that controls the prices on the wholesale market, but is confronted with the law of silence, cleared out of the way potential witnesses and a corrupt employee, Commissioner Marino.

Against all odds, Sironi can set a trap by means of intercepted conversations, but as well as that evidence from the police headquarters disappear, he decides to act on his own and is apparently the responsible engineer Brera. A runaway train help him with his plan.

Criticism

" Brutal, this work is really. [ ... ] In addition, the excellent photography and the variable, the respective mood matched music, "says " Karsten Thurau, "in the works" The terror directed " The Italian Marco Giusti also praised the work of the cameraman. The lexicon of the International film expressed less enthusiastic: " thriller that stuck in spite of deeper approaches to superficial tension mongering. "

Comments

The soundtrack was released on a split CD.