Taxi

A young taxi driver, Daniel, is distracted by fast driving. Like a hurricane, he rushes through the winding streets of Marseille in his powerfully roaring beast "Peugeot", scaring passengers and passers-by. The incorruptible policeman Emilien forces him to help apprehend a gang of robbers fleeing from the police in their elusive Mercedes. And until the very end, it is not clear who will be able to hold on to the steep bend... Read more The 1998 comedy film by French director Gérard Pires, based on the script by Luc Besson. Sequels were later released: Taxi 2 (2000), Taxi 3 (2003) and Taxi 4 (2007). The events of the film take place in Marseille. Daniel Morales (Sami Naseri), an ardent race car driver, works as a courier in a pizzeria, but later changes his job and becomes a taxi driver. Due to the fact that his car has a modified engine, he delivers his customers to their desired place extremely quickly, while breaking the traffic rules. When he is eventually caught by the police, he seeks help from a failed inspector, Emilien (Frederick Diefenthal), who is hunting a German gang. Danielle tries to help Emilien so he doesn't lose his license and his job. Interesting facts Luc Besson wrote the script for the film in 30 days; The car in the movie Taxi is a Peugeot 406. This model had already been discontinued at the time of filming; The Peugeot company released toy cars scaled 1/43 under the name "Daniel's Taxi"; The driving school where Emilien passed his exams at the beginning of the film is called J. Pires, as, in fact, the director of the film himself; The famous taxi actually consisted of 6 taxis: the first is a normal taxi; the second is a transformer taxi; the third is a machine that allowed to take pictures of the inside of the machine; the fourth — with a rudder, which made it possible to create the illusion of flight; The fifth is profiled like a car; the sixth is a car for traveling; At the 16th minute of the film, Daniel overtakes a Ducati 916 sports bike, the maximum speed of which is 265 km/h. 1999 César Film Awards for Best Editing (Véronique Lange) and Best Sound (Vincent Tully and Vincent Arnardi).