Line #17 Film/EspionLeveToi


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3	''Espion, lève-toi'' ("Spy, get up") is a 1982 French spy film directed by Yves Boisset and starring Creator/LinoVentura, Creator/MichelPiccoli and Creator/BrunoCremer.
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5	Grenier (Ventura) is a French spy living in Zurich, Switzerland. A guy who has an appointment with him is murdered in a tram. Then he is contacted by Chance (Piccoli), a guy who pretends to work for the French secret services, but Grenier is doubtful.
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7	!!''Espion, lève-toi'' provides examples of:
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9	* CantBatheWithoutAWeapon: Ramos has his gun in the holster in a chair right beside him as he showers.
10	* CreatorCameo: The director, Yves Boisset, plays the role of a henchman of Richard.
11	* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Alfred Zimmer is murdered in a tram. Later, Kieffer is murdered during his official visit to the university.
12	* DeepCoverAgent: Grenier has lived a normal life in Zurich for eight years. His partner, Anna, does not even know that he is a spy.
13	* DirtyCommunists: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. Chance is a Soviet spy, he tries to manipulate Grenier and he plays dirty tricks, but the French secret services are responsible for [[spoiler:Anna's murder]].
14	* DisposableWoman: When he hears that [[spoiler:Anna was murdered]], Grenier decides to take revenge.
15	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Anna is murdered, then Grenier.]]
16	* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is adapted from ''Chance Awakening'', a 1977 book by George Markstein.
17	* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Grenier gets killed by Richard and his henchmen in the end.]]
18	* MeaningfulName: Jean-Paul ''Chance'' (the title of the original book was even ''Chance Awakening'').
19	* OvertRendezvous: Grenier meets Chance first during a concert in a park , then during a sport event.
20	* PlotTriggeringDeath: Grenier knows that something is happening when he hears that Alfred Zimmer, a guy he had to meet, was murdered by a left-wing terrorist group.
21	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When he hears that [[spoiler:Anna was murdered]], Grenier decides to take revenge. He kills Ramos, then Chance. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he does not kill Richar, the guy who is responsible for Anna's murder.]]
22	* SecretTest: After his first meeting with Chance, Grenier is doubtful about his true intentions. Therefore, he decides to contact his hierarchy through an emergency procedure. So he attends a sport event where he is supposed to meet another French spy, but Chance shows up and tells him that the ambiguous proposal he made during their first meeting was a test and that he has passed it.
23	* {{Shoutout}}: Grenier knows that he is assigned a new mission because he receives by mail a copy of ''Twenty Years After'' by Creator/AlexandreDumas.
24	* SpyFiction: Bleach and Ammonia Flavored. The French government has no qualms about murdering its own spies and innocent bystanders.
25	* SpySpeak:
26	** Grenier's message in the small adds makes reference to Creator/AlexandreDumas's books, but it is actually an emergency message to his hierarchy.
27	** When he goes to Munich to meet Meyer, another French spy, Grenier let him know who he is by asking for a rare book.

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