The Thief of Paris DVD 1967 A tolvaj (Le voleur) / Directed by Louis Malle / Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Geneviève Bujold

UPC 5999546332650

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

Audio: French 2.0, Hungarian 2.0,

Subtitle: Hungarian

Runtime: 120 minutes

English Summary:

The Thief of Paris (Le voleur) is a 1967 French crime film directed by Louis Malle and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a professional thief (Georges Randal) at the turn of the century in Paris. The film is based on a book of the same title by Georges Darien.

In the opening scene, Georges Randal, the thief of the title, breaks into a big house and begins to steal the valuable objects on display. A series of flashbacks (with occasional reversions to the present) then narrates the story of Randal's life. An orphan, he is raised by his uncle along with his cousin Charlotte, who grows into an attractive young woman with whom he falls in love. When Georges reaches twenty-one and asks for the money his parents left him, he finds that his unscrupulous uncle has stolen it all. He is rejected as a suitor for Charlotte because he is poor. She is then betrothed by her social-climbing father to a dim-witted aristocrat. Georges steals the fiance's family jewels and from then on, motivated by a sense of justice and desire for revenge, follows a successful career as a gentleman thief, targeting the haute bourgeoisie. At the end of the film, he has achieved all his aims: he is married to Charlotte, is living in his uncle's house, and has recovered the money his parents left him, as well as having accumulated a fortune through his crimes. Charlotte says to him 'You don't need to steal any more' but he replies 'You don't understand!' It is apparent that he has a compulsion to go on, knowing that he will eventually be caught. The final scene shows him boarding the train back to Paris with the haul from his latest robbery. 

French Summary:

L'action principale se déroule au début des années 1890. Une nuit, Georges Randal, alors qu'il cambriole une villa, revient sur sa carrière de voleur. Orphelin sous la tutelle de son oncle, il revient à Paris une fois ses études terminées, où il pense épouser Charlotte, sa cousine. Ne l'attendent que ses désillusions : l'oncle a détourné sa fortune et sa cousine est promise à un autre. Lors de la soirée des fiançailles, par dépit et par vengeance, il vole des bijoux et s'enfuit. Charlotte connaît l'identité du voleur, mais ne dit rien. Dans le train qui l'en éloigne, il retrouve l'abbé La Margelle rencontré lors de la soirée, qui dirige une bande de truands, à Bruxelles. Il présente Georges à Roger la Honte, cambrioleur émérite qui devient son professeur. À mesure que son expérience et sa renommée s'affirment, il devient une figure importante des milieux interlopes.

Hungarian Summary:

Párizs, a századforduló. George Randallt gazdag nagybátyja neveli föl. A fiú abban reménykedik, hogy feleségül veheti szerelmét, ám nagybátyja másként dönt: gazdag üzlettársának lányát kell elvennie. Az esküvő után Georges bosszúból lelép újdonsült felesége családi ékszereivel. Az ékszerlopás élménye annyira magával ragadja, hogy elhatározza: egész életét ennek a tevékenységnek szenteli.

Cast / Distribution / Szereplők:

• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Georges Randal
• Geneviève Bujold as Charlotte
• Marie Dubois as Geneviève Delpiels
• Julien Guiomar as L'abbé Félix La Margelle
• Paul Le Person as Roger Voisin dit Roger-La-Honte
• Christian Lude as Urbain Randal
• Françoise Fabian as Ida
• Marlène Jobert as Broussaille
• Bernadette Lafont as Marguerite
• Martine Sarcey as Renée Mouratet
• Roger Crouzet as Mouratet
• Jacques Debary as Courbassol
• Jean-Luc Bideau as Process server (uncredited)