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Director:
José Giovanni
Writers:
José Giovanni (novel)
José Giovanni (screenplay)
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Release Date:
5 December 1975 (France) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama more
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User Comments:
Not convincing. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Alain Delon ... Hugo Sennart, Le Gitan
Paul Meurisse ... Yann Cuq
Annie Girardot ... Ninie
Marcel Bozzuffi ... Policeman Blot
Bernard Giraudeau ... Mareuil
Renato Salvatori ... Jo Amila, dit "Jo le boxeur"
Maurice Barrier ... Jacques Helman
Maurice Biraud ... Pierrot le naïf
Nicolas Vogel ... Jeannot
Michel Fortin ... Marcel
Pierre Danny ... Riquet
Adolfo Lastretti ... A brother Rinaldi
Rino Bolognesi ... A brother Rinaldi
Jacques Rispal ... Docteur J. Weiss, le vétérinaire
Mario David ... Bob
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Lo zingaro (Italy)
The Gypsy (International: English title)
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Runtime:
France:102 min
Country:
France | Italy
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Referenced in Les grandes bouches (1999) more

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7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Not convincing., 9 January 2004
Author: dbdumonteil

This Jose Giovanni effort gives you the strange feeling you are watching two different movies in one:

-The first one is a very conventional gangsters- on- the- lam movie ,with one of the weakest plots Giovanni ever wrote.

-The second one is by far the most interesting,when it shows the gypsy condition,forced to live on the garbage dumps,perpetual outcasts of a society that will never accept them.Delon's looks are eloquent and could have been successful,had he been given adequate support:only the scenes when he meets his people are worthwhile.

The cast is heterogeneous to a fault gathering actors from the forties/fifties (Paul "diaboliques" Meurisse who is here like a ghost from the past),trendy current ones (Delon,and Annie Girardot in an inept part which comes at the most awkward moment) and future glories of the eighties/the present like Bernard Giraudeau (stupidly cast as a young cop and the former lover of a gangster's wife).

The seventies were not a good time for Giovanni,with the exception of "deux hommes dans la ville":his best works remain his early efforts "la loi du survivant" (1967) ,"le rapace" (1968) and "dernier domicile connu" (1969)

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