A con man fresh out of prison discovers the only thing harder than crime is going straight.
Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
Acting
Paul Guers oozes wounded pride and desperate charm.
Cinematography
Gritty Parisian underbelly shot like a funeral.
Director
Sergio Gobbi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gobbi shot this in three weeks on borrowed locations after his main producer walked, forcing him to pawn his own car for film stock.
This flopped in France but became a cult hit in Japan, where critics read Fredo's endless bluffing as existentialist performance.
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