Taxi
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6.7In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Released: 1998-04-0886 minDir: Gérard PirèsAction, Comedy, Crime, Adventure
Cast
- Samy Naceri as Daniel Morales
- Frédéric Diefenthal as Émilien Coutant-Kerbalec
- Marion Cotillard as Lilly Bertineau
- Manuela Gourary as Camille Coutant-Kerbalec
- Emma Wiklund as Petra
- Bernard Farcy as Commissaire Gibert
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gérard Pirès
- Written by
- Luc Besson
- Produced by
- Luc Besson Michele Petin Laurent Petin
- Starring
- Samy Naceri Frédéric Diefenthal Marion Cotillard Manuela Gourary Emma Sjöberg Bernard Farcy
- Cinematography
- Jean-Pierre Sauvaire
- Edited by
- Véronique Lange
- Music by
- Akhenaton
- Production companies
- ARP TF1 Films Productions Le Studio Canal+ Cofimage 9 Studio Image 4
- Distributed by
- ARP Sélection
- Release date
- 10 April 1998 ( 1998-04-10 )
- Running time
- 90 minutes
- Country
- France
- Language
Key dates
- Published
- 20 August 1998
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- Portuguese
- Series
- Taxi
- Followed by
- Taxi
- Main subject
- organized crime
- Director
- Gérard Pirès
- Screenwriter
- Luc Besson
- Composer
- Akhenaton
Article
Taxi is a 1998 French buddy cop comedy film starring Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard, written by Luc Besson and directed by Gérard Pirès. The film follows a talented driver working a taxi in Marseille, who reluctantly must help a bumbling police inspector catch a gang of professional bank robbers.
It is the first installment in the Taxi film series, which has four sequels: Taxi 2 (2000), Taxi 3 (2003), Taxi 4 (2007), and Taxi 5 (2018).