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Le Gang

Le Gang

Movie · 1977 · 3 people

Jacques Deray directed Le Gang, a crime film made as a co-production between France and Italy. Shot in 1976 and released in 1977, it is also known in Turkey as Çete. Its subject is drawn from the story of the real criminal Pierre Loutrel, nicknamed Pierrot le Fou, and his gang, who became known in postwar France for their robberies. The gang was called the Traction Avant Gang after the Citroën cars it used. Alain Delon leads the cast.

The story is set in Paris in 1945, amid the confusion left by the end of the Second World War. Delon plays Robert Lurçat, nicknamed Robert the Crazy, who escaped a reform school as a teenager and was taken in by a couple. Robert and four friends exploit the disorder to raid banks and factories. The five have never killed anyone and always slip past the police; their plan is to pull off a few more daring jobs and then retire on the money. But the world is changing fast, and the police have other plans for them. Nicole Calfan plays Marinette, Roland Bertin plays Raymond and Maurice Barrier plays Lucien; Henri Attal, Jacques Sereys and Robert Dalban also appear.

Alphonse Boudard and Jean-Claude Carrière wrote the screenplay. It runs about 100 minutes, in French.

DirectorJacques Deray

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Henri Attal Henri Attal Actor · died at 67 Jacques Sereys Actor · died at 94 Robert Dalban Robert Dalban Actor · died at 83

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Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Alain Delon, Paris in 1945 and a run of raids on banks and factories: on paper, the full crime-film package. Five guys who have never killed anyone and always slip past the police, with a plan of a few more jobs and then retirement, promise tension from the start. The police clearly have other plans for them, so the real question is when the net will close. For anyone after a heist story with style.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Le Gang makes the chaos of Paris just after the Second World War the ground for a crime story. Drawing on the real criminal Pierre Loutrel, known as Pierrot le Fou, and his Traction Avant Gang, the film shows how the disorder left by the war became an opportunity for some. Robert's past, a reform-school runaway taken in by a couple, suggests that crime has social roots as well as personal ones. The sense of a world changing fast hints at postwar France's effort to restore order. Alphonse Boudard and Jean-Claude Carrière's script risks romanticising the period, but it opens an interesting window on history.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Watching Alain Delon is always a pleasure; few actors have shown that cool elegance on screen. In Le Gang, as Robert the Crazy, he carries the film. But for an eye that looks for a moral centre in a story, making a gang of bank robbers this attractive is a little uncomfortable, and the fact that they have killed no one so far does not quite settle the conscience. A skilful period piece, but one that dazzles the eye more than it touches the heart.

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