Violent ( Les violents )

Violent (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les violents
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1957 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Henri Calef

Written By:
Henri Calef
Jacques Chabannes

Actors:
Paul Meurisse ..... Inspecteur Principal Malouvier
Françoise Fabian ..... Evelyne Tiercelin
Fernand Ledoux ..... Pierre Tiercelin
Béatrice Altariba ..... Lisiane Chartrain
Jean Meyer ..... Eugène Gallois
Marie-Hélène Astier ..... Philippe de Coppet
Paul Guers ..... Me Rodier
Louis Arbessier ..... Léo Geens / Pierrot
Daniel Clérice ..... Le patron du bistrot
Mag-Avril ..... Julien
Daniel Mendaille ..... Bernard Chartrain - le fils
Jean Droze
Alain Quercy
André Dumas
Jean-Jacques Lécot

Synopsis:

Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....

The off-season fog and drizzle of Normandy fishing town, Honfleur perfectly echoes the plot of Les Violents, a film noir in the best French tradition: a relentless dramatic progression from family squabbles escalating into suspicion and murder, mesmerising you from the first till the last image.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 10 April, 2016.

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