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Le Cercle Rouge

Cast

Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand View All


Crew

Jean-Pierre Melville (Director), Jean-Pierre Melville (Writer) View All

Release: Oct. 19th, 1970
Runtime: 2 hours, 20 minutes
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Captain Spaulding
If the Italians' re-imagining of the Western was called a Spaghetti Western, then I guess Le Cercle Rouge could be called a .
Thief
Regardless of that, Le Cercle Rouge manages to create an atmospheric and tense heist film about a bunch of characters that just can't change their basic nature, and just can't escape the fate that awaits them in "the red circle".
PHOENIX74
Three criminals - Corey (Alain Delon), Vogel (Gian Maria Volont) and Jansen (Yves Montand) eventually come together in the red circle as the film's epigraph defines it : "Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: "When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one da....
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