Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Acting
Brasseur and Weber's unhinged chemistry carries every scene
Writing
Wry dialogue that mocks bureaucracy while rooting for the crooks
Director
Gilles Grangier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gilles Grangier directed over 50 films but remains criminally under-discussed outside France; this was his late-career pivot to smaller character studies.
The film quietly critiques 1970s French carceral systems by making the criminals more humane than the institutions — a theme Grangier explored throughout his genre-hopping career.
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