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A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
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- 3 wins & 1 nomination total
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- TriviaOn February 7, 1934, the French Ministry of the Interior and the Paris Police Prefecture banned the showing of newsreel footage of the previous day's mêlée by right-wing royalists, war veterans and members of the anti-semitic, nationalist, anti-republican Action Francaise movement, who rioted to bring down the Daladier government over the Stavisky affair. The riots left 17 dead and 116 wounded. One Parisian cinema, Reginald Ford's Cineac Theatre, defied the censorship to show footage of the riots by the reactionary forces, which had been caught on-camera by French and foreign newsreel photographers.
- GoofsTrotsky is shown as being a good-looking man in his twenties. In fact, he was twice that age.
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Serge Alexandre Stavisky: Tomorrow morning, I'll hold a press conference. I'm going to blow the whole mess wide open!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vivement dimanche: Jean-Paul Belmondo 2 (2013)
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Belmondo plays a swindler in early thirties France... His greatest creation is a new identity for himself. Completely amoral/immoral, he plays all ends against the middle.... in fact he is a Jew in France in order to swindle... and his existence is contrasted with (the Jewish) Trotsky who comes to France for political asylum... and a young Jewish actress in France to escape the Nazis.
In the end, everyone is betrayed, but the complicated story makes it extremely difficult to follow.
While it was going on, however, it was beautiful to watch and listen to.
In the end, everyone is betrayed, but the complicated story makes it extremely difficult to follow.
While it was going on, however, it was beautiful to watch and listen to.
- michael_chaplan
- Jun 1, 2005
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- Gross US & Canada
- $13,793
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,734
- Oct 7, 2018
- Gross worldwide
- $13,793
- Runtime2 hours
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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