Sans arme, ni haine, ni violence (2008)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Jean-Paul Rouve

Release Date:

16 April 2008 (Belgium)

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Exile | Escape | Nice France | Robbery | France

Cast

Jean-Paul Rouve	...	Albert Spaggiari
Alice Taglioni	...	Julia
Gilles Lellouche	...	Vincent Goumard
Maxime Leroux	...	'68'
Patrick Bosso	...	Le truand #1
Anne Marivin	...	La femme flic
Renan Carteaux	...	Renaud
Jean-Philippe Puymartin	...	Le commissaire Dréant
Pom Klementieff	...	NHI
Denis Braccini	...	Le truand #2
Arsène Mosca	...	Le Targui
Eric Fraticelli	...	Le truand #3
Éric Frey	...	Le juge Bouaziz
Florence Loiret	...	Nathalie Goumard (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
Timothé Riquet	...	Bastien Goumard
Jean-Gilles Barbier	...	Le maigre
Philippe Girard	...	Le bijoutier
François Berland	...	L'avocat
Stefan Liberski	...	Le directeur de la banque
Milan Argaud	...	Albert Spaggiari à 14 ans
Frankie Pain	...	La vieille dame
Gérard Depardieu	...	Le parrain des truands marseillais
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Grégoire Bonnet
Bertrand Burgalat
Gilles Graziano	...	Le voisin dans l'avion
Colin David Reese	...	Ronnie Biggs
Marc Robert
Jean-Claude Bourret	...	Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Jean-Paul Rouve

Produced by
Aïssa Djabri	....	producer
Pauline Duhault	....	producer
Farid Lahouassa	....	producer
Géraldine Polveroni	....	assistant producer

Original Music by
Alexandre Azaria

Cinematography by
Christophe Offenstein

Film Editing by
Stan Collet

Casting by
Pierre-Jacques Bénichou

Production Design by
Gilles Graziano

Art Direction by
Fabrice Leuci
Paulo Routier

Makeup Department
Anne Moralis	....	wig maker

Production Management
Farid Chaouche	....	production manager
Sarah Leres	....	assistant unit manager
Pascal Pons	....	unit manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
José Aragão	....	first assistant director: second unit
Martin Guena	....	third assistant director
Mathias Honoré	....	first assistant director
Pascale Jeanniard	....	second assistant director
Maria José Monteiro	....	second assistant director
Remi Veron	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Cyril Père	....	property master

Sound Department
Jean-Marie Blondel	....	sound mixer
Mélanie Blouin	....	adr foley mixer assistant
Nicolas Dambroise	....	dialogue editor
Nicolas Dambroise	....	sound editor
Marc Doisne	....	adr engineer
Marc Doisne	....	foley engineer
Alain Féat	....	sound editor
Jean-Paul Hurier	....	sound re-recording mixer
Frédéric Pardon	....	boom operator
Maxime Saleix	....	sound recordist

Visual Effects by
Alain Bignet	....	digital compositor
Alain Carsoux	....	visual effects supervisor
Jean-Nicolas Costa	....	digital compositor
Séverine De Wever	....	visual effects coordinator
Stephane Dittoo	....	visual effects supervisor
Aurélien Grand	....	retouch and restoration
Gilles Graziano	....	matte painter
Jérémy Justice	....	flame artist
Pacini Kevin	....	visual effects editor
Guillaume Le Gouez	....	digital compositor
Joel Pinto	....	digital compositor
Jeremy Séguin	....	digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Fabrice Bismuth	....	first assistant camera
Magali Sylvestre de Sacy	....	second assistant camera
Susana Gomes	....	first assistant camera
Benjamin Goumard	....	video operator: making of
Jessica Grunwald	....	second assistant camera
Lucas Leconte	....	first assistant camera

Casting Department
Marc Robert	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sandrine Langen	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Karine Prido	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Nicolas Duport	....	music recordist
Elise Luguern	....	music production supervisor

Other crew
Laura Boitel	....	script editor
Annie Devolder	....	production accountant
Emile Ploix	....	assistant production accountant
Géraldine Polveroni	....	production coordinator
Jennifer Simonnet	....	production secretary

Thanks
Gérard Depardieu	....	thanks

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Movie Connections:

Featured in Gangstars (2009) (TV)

The true story of Albert Spaggiari

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

That's the second film made about the 1976 Nice heist.

A bunch of fifteen or twenty men drilled during two months a tunnel between the sewer net and the Societe Generale safe deposit room. The bank vault. They forced 317 armored boxes, and did not forget the bank one too. They grabbed more than 50 millions of France - 16 millions of dollars.

The leader - the brain - of this bunch was arrested several months later and escaped one year after, in 1977, jumping out of the judge's office, and disappeared. He ran away from France to South America. He has never been caught again.

Albert Spaggiari was not a real gangster, but a hard boiled adventurer, former paratrooper during the Indochina and Algeria wars. A real hard boiled guy. And most of his former brother in arms - the surviving ones - followed him, were at his side in this outstanding expedition. The remaining hoods were, however, authentic gangsters, specialists in safe cracking with oxyacetylene cutting torches.

Another movie was made in 1979, directed by Jose Giovanni. It focused more on the heist itself, not the afterwads...

The 2008 film points out the escape in a South America country, where a "journalist" tries to meet the famous thief for making an interview.

Spaggiari is shown as a weird character. Racist and engaging at the same time. Ambivalent.

In short, it's an interesting film for anyone who looks for details about the mighty 1976 heist, the equivalent of the 1963 Great Train Robbery - the Glasgow London one.

But that's another story...