During a robbery that goes wrong, Valentin Tralande kills his accomplices and bank customers.
Acting
Villeret's terrifying against-type turn from comic to killer.
Direction
Duval's suffocating tight spaces, nowhere to breathe.
Director
Daniel Duval
Jacques Villeret
Valentin Tralande, truand violent
Marlène Jobert
Christine
Bruno Cremer
Pierre
Jean-Pierre Dravel
Le commissaire de police
Robert Kramer
Le garçon d'étage de l'hôtel
Denise Filiatrault
La barmaid de l'établissement de nuit
Maxime Leroux
Un gangster, complice de Tralande
Florent Pagny
Le jeune plombier pris en otage pour sa voiture
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jacques Villeret was France's beloved comic actor; this rare dramatic role shocked audiences expecting laughs.
Effraction flopped commercially but exemplifies the 'polar' tradition—French crime cinema obsessed with doomed men and moral rot.
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