Max et les Ferrailleurs
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Max et les Ferrailleurs (Max and the Junkmen) is a 1971
Franco
–Italian
film directed by Claude Sautet
. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Claude Néron.
), a young German-born prostitute who is the wife of Abel. He pretends to be the director of a small bank branch which receives significant amounts of money at regular intervals. He ensures the support of his boss Rosinsky. Max fails however to reveal his role as instigator. Gradually, some feeling arises between Max and Lily. But Max keeps a reserved attitude and merely influence the scrap through her. Finally, guessing the band ready for action, they communicate an ideal date to commit robbery. On the scheduled day, the police awaits them and they are arrested. Later in the police station, Rosinsky reveals to Max that he wants all collaborators brought to justice, particularly Lily. Distraught, Max tries to save her and ends up threatening Rosinsky. In an argument, Max pulls out his gun and killes him, joining the scrap.
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...
Franco
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
–Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...
film directed by Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...
. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Claude Néron.
Plot
Born into a wealthy family of vintners, Max (Michel Piccoli) is a loner who devoted himself entirely to his obsession: the arrest of criminals. A Former judge he is a police inspector and he sees a new band of burglars escape. This new failure is still fresh in his mind when he meets Abel who has become "scrap" and plunders construction sites with a small band of hoodlums around Nanterre. Max plans to encourage them to commit something big and catch them on the spot. Posing as a client, he meets Lily (Romy SchneiderRomy Schneider
Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
), a young German-born prostitute who is the wife of Abel. He pretends to be the director of a small bank branch which receives significant amounts of money at regular intervals. He ensures the support of his boss Rosinsky. Max fails however to reveal his role as instigator. Gradually, some feeling arises between Max and Lily. But Max keeps a reserved attitude and merely influence the scrap through her. Finally, guessing the band ready for action, they communicate an ideal date to commit robbery. On the scheduled day, the police awaits them and they are arrested. Later in the police station, Rosinsky reveals to Max that he wants all collaborators brought to justice, particularly Lily. Distraught, Max tries to save her and ends up threatening Rosinsky. In an argument, Max pulls out his gun and killes him, joining the scrap.
Cast
- Michel Piccoli : Max
- Romy SchneiderRomy SchneiderRomy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...
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