Prince of the City
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1981 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Sidney Lumet |
| Cast | Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino |
| Genre | Crime drama |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Prince of the City | – |
| Español | El príncipe de la ciudad | El principe de la ciudad |
| Français | Le Prince de New York | Le Prince de New York |
| Deutsch | Prince of the City | Prince of the City |
| Português | O Príncipe da Cidade | O Principe da Cidade |
| Italiano | Il principe della città | Il principe della citta |
| Русский | Принц города | Prints goroda |
| 中文（简体） | 城市王子 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 城市王子 | – |
| 한국어 | 도시의 왕자 | Dosiui wangja |
| ไทย | Prince of the City | Prince of the City |
| Tiếng Việt | Prince of the City | Prince of the City |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Prince of the City | Prince of the City |
| 日本語 | プリンス・オブ・シティ | Purinsu Obu Shiti |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which institutional loyalty and moral confession collide within a corrupt law-enforcement system
■ Synopsis
A narcotics detective becomes an informant and is drawn into a widening conflict between truth, loyalty, prosecution, and self-destruction.
■ RECIPE Tags
#InstitutionalCorruption #MoralConfession #LoyaltyCollapse #TruthAndComplicity
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Confession against the system
Reason: Truth begins as cooperation but immediately exposes the speaker’s own contamination
Related Film: Serpico - Middle: Testimony as institutional consumption
Reason: The whistleblower is used by the system while being morally and legally consumed by it
Related Film: The Insider - Core: Justice without purity
Reason: The pursuit of truth reaches a territory where no participant remains clean
Related Film: Q & A
■ Secondary Axes
- Loyalty and betrayal: Personal bonds collapse when institutional truth becomes unavoidable
Related Film: Donnie Brasco - Law and moral exhaustion: Legal procedure becomes a machine that reveals guilt without restoring wholeness
Related Film: The Verdict
■ Person
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Cast: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino
■ Structural Tags
#InstitutionalExposure #ComplicityChain #TestimonyCollapse
■ Attribute Tags
#UnitedStates #1981Film #CrimeDrama
