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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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