Also Known As: Ein Mann zuviel | |
Year of first release: 1967 | |
Director: Costa Gavras | |
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bruno Cremer, Gérard Blain | |
Country: F, I | |
Genre: Thriller, War | |
Conditions of visioning: 19.03.2017, arte.tv, streaming | |
Synopsis: During WWII a group of the French resistance lead by Cazal (Cremer) attacks a prison and gets other resistants out. But there is one man more (Piccoli) than expected and that nobody knows. The tension rises in the group and especially between Passevin (Blain) and Jean (Brialy) as this extra guy could be a spy. | |
Review: The story is quite serious but Costa Gavras brings some humour with the role of Groubec played by Claude Brasseur. This war movie is focused on the resistance group and their daily life in which suspiscion toward unknown people is usual. Therefore we witness the prearation of the meals, the contact with the local people, the organisation of the actions. The stress, the tension, the suspiscion, the goodness, the casualness is very well transmitted by the whole acting and directing. The role of Piccoli as full pacifist who do not even introduce himself as self-protection is quite complex and very well done. The internal struggle between Gérard Blain and Jean-Claude Brialy is excellently acted. And the secondary roles are well done also. Really great job. For a war movie, there are no much weapons and attacks apart from the starting scene and another one. It is not common and I liked also the way to focus on fighters during war without showing much fights and more the life besides the fight. |
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Rating: 7 /10
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