"A great crime film, which is very difficult to achieve. [...] you can cling to all the clichés, but it's a great crime film that's very difficult to make. Well, we read crime novels, we talk about them, but we read them and there's nothing there, you know what I mean? It's thin, you can't attract people with that kind of thing anymore, you need something massive and compact that carries weight."
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From the interview of Christian Defaye e Claudette per "Spécial Cinéma,", Les archives de la RTS, 11 February 1985. Video available on Youtube.com.
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Lino Ventura
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading men of French cinema during the 1960s and 1970s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas.
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