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Bandits (1987)

Directed by Claude Lelouch

Overview

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini’s wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He’s framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who’s 11 when he’s sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn’t know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

Rated PG-13 | Length 111 minutes

Actors

Jean Yanne | Marie-Sophie L. | Patrick Bruel | Charles Gérard | Corinne Marchand | Hélène Surgère | Edwige Navarro | Françoise Bette | Jean-Claude Bourbault | Christine Barbelivien | Jean-Michel Dupuis | Olivier Cruveiller | Xavier Maly | Anouchka | Gunilla Karlzen | Eugène Berthier | Raoul Billerey | Michel Amphoux | Mireille Audibert | Hervé Briaux | Eric Denize | Bernard Freyd | Jean-Claude Frissung | Jean-Jacques Lagarde | Jean-Claude Leguay | Martine Lelouch | Alain Ollivier | Dimitri Radochevitch | Bernard Spiegel | Catherine Wilkening | Guillaume Bourgois | Laura Favali | Hervé Favre | Raphael Mingart | Henri Morvan | Ginette Garcin