Rififi (1955)

opinion: ;

rating: 4,5 of 5;
when latest: April 18th 2016;
where: S. Paulo, Brazil;

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quotes: “… You’re not the only one that had an unhappy childhood, there are millions like you, and, in my eyes, *they* are the tough ones, not you! …”;

director:  Jules Dassin;
starring:  Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel;
country:  France;
release date: April 13th 1955;
run time: 122 min;
genre: Crime, Thriller, Film-Noir;

storyline: After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L’ Âge d’ Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress.;

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Rififi (1955)

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