Bibliograph

Mesrine, La Petite Reine and Canal+ present ; directed by Jean-Francois Richet ; screenplay Abdel Raouf Dafri

Type

Label

Mesrine, La Petite Reine and Canal+ present ; directed by Jean-Francois Richet ; screenplay Abdel Raouf Dafri

Language

fre

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Mesrine

Oclc number

650248843

Responsibility statement

La Petite Reine and Canal+ present ; directed by Jean-Francois Richet ; screenplay Abdel Raouf Dafri

Runtime

237

Summary

Killer instinct: Recently returned hom after serving in the Algerian War, Jacques Mesrine is soon seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mesrine moves swiftly up the criminal ladder, but after pulling off an audacious heist, he and his lover Jeanne flee to Canada. There, the opportunity of one big payout lures him out of hiding and propels him towards international notoriety. Public enemy number 1: Now back in France, Mesrine is finally in police custody and facing justice for his crimes, but he is soon on the run once again. After escaping a courtroom and kidnapping the judge at gunpoint, Mesrine is declared Public Enemy Number One and is eventually condemned to a maximum security prison where he writes his first memoirs, establishing himself as a household name and anti-hero across France

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. Part 1, Killer instinct -- Disc 2. Part 2, Public enemy number 1

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Vincent Cassel is Mesrine

Contributor