Ronin

Titolo originale: Ronin
Regia: John Frankenheimer |
Anno: 1998
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Azione Thriller Crime
Tag: france | paris, france | arms deal | mercenary | suitcase | heist | shootout | impostor | ira (irish republican army) | cafe | computer expert | ex kgb | cellular phone trace | violence |
Cast: Robert De Niro | Jean Reno | Natascha McElhone | Stellan Skarsgård | Skipp Sudduth | Jonathan Pryce | Sean Bean | Michael Lonsdale | Féodor Atkine | Katarina Witt | Ron Perkins | Daniel Breton | Amidou | Jan Tříska | Bernard Bloch | Léopoldine Serre | Dominic Gugliametti | Alan Beckworth | Tolsty | Gérard Moulévrier | Lionel Vitrant | Vincent Schmitt | Julia Maraval | Laurent Spielvogel | Steve Suissa | Katia Tchenko | Dyna Gauzy | Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux | Dimitri Rafalsky | Gérard Touratier | Christophe Maratier | Pierre Forest | Henry Moati | Cyril Prentout | Vladimir Tchernine | Amanda Spencer | Frédéric Schmalzbauer | Lou Maraval | Nader Boussandel | Hélène Cardona | Lee Delong | Norbert Ferrer | Veronique Blanc Meyere | Christine Musset |

La guerra Fredda è finita ma alle soglie del nuovo mondo troviamo un gruppo di mercenari segreti le cui abilità di sorveglianza, ricognizione ed attacco sono in vendita al migliore offerente. Cinque di questi operativi, conosciuti come "Ronin", vengono convocati da un misterioso cliente a Parigi per una missione pericolosa: impadronirsi di una valigetta top secret.

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The announcer had announced that Natacha Kirilova was a 'double Olympic champion and three times wor [...] D
John Frankenheimer owned a similar brown Mercedes that was used in the second car chase scene. Altho [...] D
Sean Bean's character claims to be an S.A.S. (British Special Air Service) veteran based in Hereford [...] D
The melancholic Ronin theme is played with an Armenian doudouk. D
In a 2008 readers poll conducted by "CAR Magazine", four cars featured in this movie merited ranking [...] D
David Mamet worked on the film as a script doctor. He re-wrote a significant amount of the script, m [...] D
To create the desired palette intended for the film, the art department was instructed to get props [...] D
Almost all scenes were shot on-location, with the exception of two scenes. The opening scene used a [...] D
This was filmed in Super 35 despite "Filmed in Panavision" being listed in the end credits. This has [...] D
The script originally called for Sam chasing Gregor in the arena to stop at the railing. However, wh [...] D
Skipp Sudduth requested to do his own stunt driving during the car chases, and John Frankenheimer ag [...] D
300 stunt drivers were employed to give the final chase scene the required amount of metal-crunching [...] D
Sean Bean (Spence) and Féodor Atkine (Mikhi) appeared in the TV series Sharpe (1993). Bean plays [...] D
Three of the actors in this movie have played the antagonists in three separate James Bond movies. S [...] D
The content of the silver briefcase is never revealed, making the briefcase a good example of a mode [...] D
The Christmas carol sung (in French) by a choir in the town square is "Now is Born the Divine Christ [...] D
As well as being successive Bond villains to Pierce Brosnan's 007 Sean Bean and Jonathon Pryce both [...] D
In Japan "ronin" not only means a "masterless Samurai", it also refers to students who haven't been [...] D
Although uncredited twice, simply known as Jaqueline, she plays exactly the same role as a crying li [...] D
Robert De Niro and Jonathan Pryce previously appeared in Brazil (1985). D
During one of the car chase sequences where Gregor (Stellan Skarsgård) is dictating directions to [...] D
The talk about the "man in the wheelchair" is referencing the book "The Bourne Identity" (1980) by R [...] D
To make it look like Robert De Niro and Natascha McElhone were actually driving during the car chase [...] D
(at around 1h 27 mins) During the chase scene along Paris, for the first three minutes there is no m [...] D
At the end, when Seamus shoot the two Russians, theY drop the case with the desired content and the [...] D
Robert De Niro opens the film stashing a Colt 1911, which he later uses at the bridge ambush, as wel [...] D
A total of 80 automobiles were destroyed during filming. D
Ronin was John Frankenheimer's last big hurrah. 80 cars were written off during filming. Robert De N [...] D
The original ending had Deirdre (Natascha McElhone) outside the café where Sam (Robert De Niro) a [...] D
Sam "tests" two of his companions with a cup of coffee, with contrasting results. By pretending to k [...] D
The first edition VHS in the U.S. mistakenly lists the film as released in 1997. D
In the scene where Sam (Robert De Niro) is shot and has the bullet removed, he says the bullet was T [...] D
Body count: 34. D
The word Ronin literally means "wave man" as it was used to describe itinerant samurai who did not s [...] D
J.D. Zeik, one of the script's writers explained how he was inspired for the script: "In Nice, I was [...] D
The brown Mercedes Benz used by Vincent and Sam is a rare, high performance 450 SEL 6.9 version [...] D
Like the cut near the start of the movie that transitions from on-location to the set of the café [...] D
The car chase scene, wherein Natascha McElhone drives against traffic resembles the same scene in Wi [...] D
Many characters played by Sean Bean in other films wind up getting killed. This is one of the few in [...] D
Stellan Skarsgård and Jonathan Pryce later appeared in Pirati dei Caraibi - La maledizione del fo [...] D
Vincent (Jean Reno) is the only mercenary that uses only one gun throughout the movie: a Beretta 92F [...] D
(at around 1h 53 mins) Some radio news including BBC and CNN report about the end of the hostilities [...] D
Ron Jeremy flew to Paris to film a small part in the film that was eventually cut by the studio. D
The "fish in the barrel" scene was nearly scrapped when filmmakers encountered inconsistent weather [...] D
RAF Hereford doesn't have a boathouse. The base is surrounded by English countryside. D
One of the stunt drivers was former Formula 1 driver Jean-Pierre Jarier. D
The conversation between Sam and Jean-Pierre explains the history of the 47 Japanese Samurai who bec [...] D