Dobermann (film)

Dobermann
Dobermann
Directed by	Jan Kounen
Written by	Joël Houssin
Produced by	Frédérique Dumas; Éric Névé
Starring	Tchéky Karyo; Vincent Cassel; Monica Bellucci
Cinematography	Michel Amathieu
Edited by	Bénédicte Brunet
Music by	Brune; Jean-Jacques Hertz; Philippe Mallier; François Roy; Schyzomaniac
Distributed by	PolyGram Film Distribution
Release date	18 June 1997 (France);
Running time	103 mins.
Country	France
Languages	French, English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$5.9 million

Dobermann is a 1997 French crime action film directed by Jan Kounen starring Tchéky Karyo, Vincent Cassel, and Monica Bellucci.

Plot[edit]

The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini (Tchéky Karyo), who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost. He manages to catch gang member Sonia, a trans woman. Christini threatens to kill Sonia's baby if she does not help him to catch the gang. Sonia has no choice and visits a party in a disco where the other gang members celebrate their robbery. She informs Christini with an alarm transmitter that all gang members are here so the police start a raid. After a gun fight the police arrest several members of the gang but some manage to escape, including Dobermann, who flees into a hidden basement which also has monitoring screens to show what happens in the disco. As Christini kills Pitbull and abducts Nat with a car to rape her, Dobermann leaves his hiding place and follows him in a stolen ambulance. He overtakes Christini and manages to wrestle him down in the car. Dobermann grinds the head of Christini on the road while still driving the car at high speed as revenge for the killed friends. Christini is left heavily disfigured on the road, presumably dying. The surviving gang members are able to escape and bury Sonia (the personage). As they leave the scene in their convertible a police helicopter is shown following them, with their car in its sights.

Cast[edit]

Tchéky Karyo as Christini
Vincent Cassel as Yann Lepentrec "Dobermann"
Monica Bellucci as Nat the Gypsy
Antoine Basler as Jean-Claude Ayache "Moustique"
Dominique Bettenfeld [fr] as Elie Frossard dit l'Abbé
Marc Duret as Inspecteur Baumann
Florence Thomassin as Florence
Romain Duris as Manu
François Levantal as Léo

Sequel[edit]

On May 24, 2011, Dobermann 2: Arm Wrestle was announced. Vincent Cassel is in talks to reprise the role of Dobermann, and will have a $35 million budget.^[2]