The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
Direction
Kounen's kinetic camera work—part music video, part fever dream.
Acting
Cassels' feral charisma vs. Karyo's reptilian menace.
Cinematography
Saturated neon-noir Paris that drips with aggressive style.
Director
Jan Kounen
Vincent Cassel
Yann Le Pentrec aka Dobermann
Tchéky Karyo
Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
Monica Bellucci
Nathalie
Antoine Basler
Jean-Claude Ayache, dit "Moustique"
Affif Ben Badra
Le mac
Romain Duris
Manu
Marc Duret
Inspecteur Baumann
Pascal Demolon
Inspecteur Lefèvre
Dominique Bettenfeld
Elie Frossard dit l'Abbé
François Levantal
Leo
Stéphane Metzger
Olivier Brachet dit Sonia
Chick Ortega
Jacky Sueur dit Pitbull
Patrick Rocca
Commissaire Clodarec
Florence Thomassin
Florence
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kounen's background in French music videos explains the film's aggressive visual rhythm; he reportedly storyboarded every gunfight to specific techno tracks.
This was Cassel and Bellucci's second film together—they'd marry two years later, making their on-screen chemistry uncomfortably prophetic.
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