Classe tous risques [videorecording] / Janus Films ; a Rialto Pictures release a coproduction Mondex Films, Les Films Odéon, Filmsonor (Paris), Zebra Films (Rome) ; Robert Amon présente un film de Claude Sautet ; produit par Jean Darvey ; adaptation, Claude Sautet ; screenplay by José Giovanni ; directed by Claude Stutet.
Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Claude Cerval, Jacques Dacqmine. Based on the book by José Giovanni. Originally released as a motion picture in 1960. Special features: New, restored high-defiintion digital transfer; excerpts from "Claude Sautet ou la magie invisible:" a 2003 documentary on the director by N.T. Binh and Dominique Rabourdin; interview with Classe tous risques novelist and screenwriter José Giovanni; archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career; original French and U.S. theatrical trailers; booklet: features new essays by director Bertrand Tavernier and Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean-Pierre Melville.
Summary:
After hiding out in Milan for nearly a decade, former gang boss Abel Davos sneaks back into Paris, along with his children and appointed guardian, Eric Stark. Beset by backstabbing former friends, Abel begins a journey through the postwar Parisian underworld that is both throat grabbing and soul searching. A character study of a career criminal at the end of his rope.
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