The Crook / Simon the Swiss
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Production year1970
French release20/11/1970
Runtime2 h
Synopsis
Simon (Jean-Claude Trintignant) gets out of prison and summons his old friend Charles (Charles Gerard) and Martine (Christine Lelouch), his one time lover now married to a wealthy man. The three kidnap a little boy and then blackmail the bank where the boy's father works to pay the ransom of one million dollars. The publicity-conscious bank pays the ransom but the rest doesn't go exactly as planned.
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (23)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producers : Les Artistes Associés, Les Films Ariane, Les Films 13
- Foreign production company : Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films 26
- French distribution : Les Artistes Associés
Full credits (15)
- Screenwriters : Claude Lelouch, Claude Pinoteau, Pierre Uytterhoeven
- Dialogue Writer : Claude Lelouch
- Director of Photography : Jean Collomb
- Music Composer : Francis Lai
- Assistant Director : Claude Pinoteau
- Editor : Marie-Claude Lacambre
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Louis Ducarme
- Costume designer : Ted Lapidus
- Foreign producers : Léon Zuratas, Alberto Grimaldi
- Producers : Claude Lelouch, Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine
- Production managers : Raymond Leplont, Pierre Pardon
- Assistant Editor : Daniel Vigne
- Casting : Arlette Gordon
- Sound Mixer : Alex Pront
- Unit Production Manager : Nicole Carmet
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Crime/thriller
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
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