La Scoumoune
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| Directed by | José Giovanni |
| Produced by | Raymond Danon |
| Starring | Jean Paul Belmondo, Michel Constantin, Claudia Cardinale |
| Music by | François de Roubaix |
| Cinematography | Andréas Winding |
Release dates | 1972 |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | 1,966,700 admissions (France)[1] |
La Scoumoune ("Bad luck") is a 1972 French film directed by José Giovanni, starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale and Michel Constantin. It is an adaption of Giovanni's novel L'Excommunié.[2]
La Scoumoune is a remake of a 1961 French movie, A Man Named Rocca, directed by Jean Becker, also based on Giovanni's novel and starring Belmondo in the same part.
Plot
In the mid-1930s mobster Roberto La Rocca (Jean-Paul Belmondo) comes to Marseille to help his friend who was framed by the local crime bosses. Roberto is caught up in clashes between different gangs and as a result serves a long sentence in prison for the murder of several enemy gang members. Once in prison he begins to prepare his escape.
Cast
- Jean-Paul Belmondo: Roberto Borgo
- Claudia Cardinale: Georgia Saratov
- Michel Constantin: Xavier Saratov
- Philippe Brizard: Fanfan
- Enrique Lucero: Migli
- Michel Peyrelon: "handsome Charlot"
- Alain Mottet: Ficelle
- Jacques Debary: Carl
- Jean-Claude Michel: the lawyer
- Marc Eyraud: Bonnaventure
- Aldo Bufi Landi: Villanova
- Dominique Zardi: the convict
- Pierre Collet: the prison director
- Henri Vilbert: Graville
- Nicolas Vogel: Grégoire
- Jacques Rispal: the undertaker
- Andréa Ferréol: the angry prostitute
- Gérard Depardieu: the young hoodlum
- Henri Lambert: the angry player
- Luciano Catenacci
References
- ↑ Box office information about film at Box Office Story
- ↑ "Claudia Cardinale". Mymovies.it. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
External links
- La Scoumoune at the Internet Movie Database
- Bad Luck at Le Film Guide
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