Details

Release year: 1960

Storyline

A ruthless criminal flees from the pursuit, involving more and more casualties.

Top credits

Directors

Claude Sautet

Writers

Cast

Lino Ventura — Abel Davos
Sandra Milo — Liliane
Jean-Paul Belmondo — Eric Stark
Marcel Dalio — Arthur Gibelin

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Did you know

• This film is inspired from actual events and character: Abel Danos, renamed Davos here, who was a gangster heavily involved in the French Gestapo in Paris, rue Lauriston, between 1941 and 1944. Writer José Giovanni, his real-life nephew forgets this and magnifies this character, as he will later do in other of his stories and novels. Commissioner Blot is based on the real life Commissioner Georges Clot.

• Co-writer/Director Claude Sautet said after the shooting that he did not know that the Abel Davos - Danos - character was inspired by a gangster who collaborated with the Nazis against French resistance and Jews during German occupation.

• The opening sequence was filmed in candid camera, which lead to passersby in Milan thinking they were witnessing an actual robbery and chasing the actors down.