IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578483/
Date of Birth:20 October 1917, Paris, France
Date of Death:2 August 1973, Paris, France (heart attack)
Height:6' 0¾" (1.85 m)
Trademarks:Often directed crime movies Often cast Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon Characters looking over a room for last time before leaving. Characters looking themselves over in a mirror. Long stretches of film pass with no dialogue.
Burglar Maurice Faugel has just finished his sentence. He murders Gilbert Vanovre, a receiver, and steals the loot of a break-in. He is also preparing a house-breaking, and his friend Silien brings him the needed equipment. But Silien is a police informer... A movie whose "all characters are two-faced, all characters are false", according to director Jean-Pierre Melville.
Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.