The Thief

Un film de Louis Malle d’après le roman de Darien

Communication. FilmsDARIEN, Georges (1862-1921/08/19). Pseud. de Georges Hippolyte Adrien

CAST
Jean-Paul BELMONDO (Georges Randal)
Geneviève BUJOLD (Charlotte)

Marie DUBOIS (Geneviève Delpiels)
Julien GUIOMAR (l’abbé La Margelle)
Paul Le PERSON (Roger la Honte)
Christian LUDE (Urbain, Georges’ uncle)
Françoise FABIAN (Ida)
Marlène JOBERT (Broussailles)
Bernadette LAFONT (Marguerite, the maid)
Martine SARCEY (Mouratet)
Roger CROUZET (Van der Bush)
Fernand GUIOT (Gunner)
with the participation of Charles DENNER
"Lavishly re-creating the splendor and squalor of late 19th-century Paris, THE THIEF OF PARIS showcases a stellar performance by Jean-Paul Belmondo as a nihilistic young man whose hatred of society leads him to a life of crime. Raised to despise poverty, then left penniless when he is tricked out of his inheritance, his revenge is to become "the thief of Paris," targeting the bourgeois class he no longer belongs to. “No other character is closer to me . . . I have never made as autobiographical a film as this one”—Louis Malle. “A solid period thriller-cum-romance, which also contains an incisive comment on hypocrisy, injustice, anarchy and corruption”—Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide. “Malle’s best French film”
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