Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Jean Gabin Danièle Ajoret Michel Barbey Christian Barbier Pierre Dux Armando Francioli Julien Guiomar Eléonore Hirt Reinhard Kolldehoff Félix Marten Orlane Paquin Marc Porel André Weber Henri Attal Astrid Frank Jacques Galland Gabriel Gobin Henri Poirier Dominique Zardi Paul Bonifas Ermanno Casanova Albert Delpy Yves Lefrançois Bernard Ristroph Tony Rödel André Rouyer Bob Sissa Jean Cherlian Rita Maiden Show All…
Der Erbarmungslose, Тайна фермы Мессе, Il clan degli uomini violenti, Heroin, Конят, Aile Şerefi, A ló, اسب, 冤冤相报, Justicia sin palabras
France
Italy
Germany
Netherlands
Norway
Turkey
Poland
France
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Turkey
Jean Gabin doesn't take any bull from some drug dealers that his grandson recklessly gets involved with. The title is Europe's name for HERION. Gabin plays Auguste, the patriarch/landowner of a farm where time stands still. Horses, cows and tradition are abundant. His grandson played by Marc Porel stupidly hides heroin and believe you me Granddaddy isn't happy once he finds it. What follows is a swift tale of one man doing whatever he can to protect his family while refusing to adapt to the times. This mean the police can fuck off. Jean Gabin is such a presence and does more with a stare than any bullet. He may be older than God but he's got the wit and…
If you squint a little, you might see the genre echoes of Mr Majestyk or Sunday In The Country rippling through this French thriller. However, this is very much its own brand of rugged rural drama and economical crime tension. La Horse wastes no time diving into conflict as Jean Gabin’s cattle-farm patriarch finds a heroin cache hidden on his land, followed shortly by a succession of increasingly violent drug ring goons who want their product back.
Unfortunately for them, Gabin’s Auguste is a hard-edged stubborn curmudgeon who dominates his family to their detriment and is hellbent on handling the gangster problem with equal…decisiveness. Even opposite vicious drug pushers, he crystallizes into another antagonistic presence harming his kin. Director Pierre…
I’m a sucker for hard boiled revenge movies where the hero is in a position of power over the dirt bags - like in the versions of Ransom(!) (1956/1996) where Glenn Ford/Mel Gibson in a mid-film twist instead of paying the ransom turn the tables on the bad guys and offer a bounty instead. This economical Jean Gabin vehicle gets right to the point with the hunter becoming the hunted right from the jump. Gabin, in old man stoic kick ass mode, is a farmer dealing with city folk heroin dealers thanks to a grandson over his head. A genre piece through and through but not at all trashy. It’s like Gabin took everything he taught to the then current taciturn Euro bad ass Lino Ventura back in Touchez Pas au Grisbi and repurposed it for his own use as a reminder of who the man really is. Charles Bronson might have been taking notes.
An entire movie made out of the notion that aging Gabin is such an imposing presence no crime or law can even touch his own version of justice of the land. It is far too single minded and Pierre Granier-Deferre approach can feel narrow, but luck for him, Gabin really does excel that amount of willpower, very few actors could pull this role in such monotonous movie and make it work but The Horse happens to star one of them, o this remains intriguing despite its flaws.
Liebling und Must See
Jean Gabin in Bestform in einer seiner boshaftesten Rollen.
Hochspannender, atmosphärisch dichter, im ländlichen Milieu angesiedelter Drogenthriller, in dem nebenbei noch verhärtete patriarchale Strukturen bloß gestellt werden.
Kein sympathischer, aber ein großartiger Film.
Осень патриарха, "ворошиловский стрелок" по-французски. Похожий на Ельцина Габен в роли "соли земли" мочит городских наркоторговцев. Финальный кадр с затылком мощный. И отличная музыка Сержа Генсбура.
A movie about a very simple but strong-minded man. Gabin is excellent in the lead role, as your typical annoyed, but sort of solemn old man who only cares about his duty to protect his family. The movie really does a great job developing and visually presenting his relationship with his children and grandchildren, he's in charge, and whatever he says, goes.
I love when a character can rule and command people simply through his mannerisms and the way he presents himself. Despite having decades on most of his family, and even the drug smugglers he finds himself in battle with, he always manages to be intimidating to them through sheer resilience and presence.
The way the movie is structured…
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This film is good. It reminded me ofJacques Becker's 1943 Goupi Mains Rouges (It Happened at the Inn).
I highly recommend watching both.
Side note: This movie makes me glad I began 2021 on the right path of movie watching. There is such a treasure of films out there, you just gotta know how to find them.
