Jean Rochefort, Michel Auclair, Charles Vanel, Jose Giovanni, Claude Dauphin, Michele Mercier, Daniela Rocca ; with Claude Cerval, Jean Degrave, Maurice Garrel, Billy Kearns, Pierre Mirat, Marcello Pagliero. Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. Based on the novel Sinfonía para una masacre by Alain Reynaud-Fourton. Bonus features: The score of Symphony for a massacre : an evaluation of the film by Françoise Guérif, screenwriter and film noir historian, along with Jean Rochefort biographer Jean-Philippe Guerand (28 minutes) ; re-release trailer.
Summary:
In this stylish heist noir from director Jacques Deray, master director of the French crime film, five men tied to businesses with varying degrees of legality pool their money to go in on one huge narcotics deal that can set them up for life, and test their loyalties.
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