Le Doulos [videorecording] / Rialto Pictures ; Studio Canal ; Carlo Ponti, Georges de Beauregard présentent ; adaptation de Jean-Pierre Melville ; film de Jean-Pierre Melville.
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, René Lefevre, Michel Piccoli, Jean Desailly. Based on the novel by Pierre Lesou. DVD release of a 1962 motion picture. Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; selected-scene audio commentary featuring film scholar Ginette Vincendeau; video interviews with directors Volker Schlöndorff and Bertrand Tavernier (assistant director and publicity agent , respectively, on the film); archival interviews with Melville and actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Serge Reggiani; original theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation; a new essay by film critic Glenn Kenny.
Summary:
A complicated thriller about the fatalistic relationship between two men: Maurice, a crook just out of prison, and Silien, a mysterious, cryptic informer caught up in the complex relationship between the criminal underworld and the police.
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