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Le Cercle Rouge

Name: Le Cercle Rouge
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Released: 1970-10-19
Duration: 140 min
Rating: 7.6

★ 7,6 /10 (737 Votes)

1970 FR 140 min

Overview

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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Release date

19/10/1970

Votes

737

Popularity

3.0

No place to hide . . . nowhere to run . . .

Genres

Crime Thriller

Status

Released

Original title

Le Cercle rouge

Language

Runtime

140 min

Alain Delon

Corey

Bourvil

Commissioner François Mattei

Gian Maria Volonté

Vogel

Yves Montand

Jansen

Paul Crauchet

The Receiver

Paul Amiot

Marchand, Inspector General of Police

Pierre Collet

Prison Guard

André Ekyan

Rico

Jean-Pierre Posier

Mattei's Assistant

François Périer

Santi

Yves Arcanel

Committing Magistrate

René Berthier

Judiciary Police Director

Jean-Marc Boris

Jean-Marc, Santi's Son

Jean Champion

Level-crossing guard

Yvan Chiffre

Policeman

Anna Douking

Corey's old girlfriend

Robert Favart

Salesman at Mauboussin

Roger Fradet

Policeman

Édouard Francomme

Billiard hall watchman

Jean Franval

Hotel keeper

Jacques Galland

Train conductor

No photo

Jean-Pierre Janic

Paul, Rico's henchman

No photo

Pierre Lecomte

Deputy of the I.G.S.

Jacques Léonard

Policeman

No photo

Jacques Leroy

Policeman

Jean Pignol

Court registry clerk

Robert Rondo

Policeman

Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Santi's Doorman (uncredited)

Stéphanie Fugain

Cigarette seller (uncredited)

Guy Henry

Guardian (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Jean-Pierre Meville's 1970 film <i>Le Cercle rouge</i> (The Red Circle) is a crime caper based on the interplay of several initially unacquainted individuals. As Melville's fake quote from the Buddha that serves as the intertitle goes, "When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle." These men are Corey (Alain Delon), who has just been released from prison, Vogel (Gian Maria Volonté), who has escaped from his police guard before he could even reach prison, and the al…

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Though it takes quite a while to get going, and I constantly wanted to rub that annoying moustache from the face of Alain Delon ("Corey") I really rather enjoyed this crime caper. Delon recruits the dapper ex-cop with a drink problem - "Jansen" (Yves Montand), and the recently escaped "Vogel" (Gian Maria Volontè) into his plan to rob an exclusive Parisian jewellers. Situated on the top floor of a town house with state of the art security, they must recce the scene and use all of their initiative and ingenuity to crack the systems and pinch - and dispose of - $20 million worth of loot. Simultan…

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