Tony's Revenge (2011– )
"Les beaux mecs" (original title)

Stars:

Simon Abkarian, Soufiane Guerrab, Dimitri Storoge

1 win.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Simon Abkarian	...	Tony (8 episodes, 2011)
Soufiane Guerrab	...	Kenz (8 episodes, 2011)
Dimitri Storoge	...	Nils Karlssen (8 episodes, 2011)
Philippe Nahon	...	Janvier (8 episodes, 2011)
Julien Lucas	...	Julien (8 episodes, 2011)
Olivier Rabourdin	...	Guido (7 episodes, 2011)
Fejria Deliba	...	Nassima (7 episodes, 2011)
Pierre-Alain Chapuis	...	Dominique (6 episodes, 2011)
Philippe du Janerand	...	Charley (6 episodes, 2011)
Mousa Mansaly	...	Moussa (6 episodes, 2011)
Samir Djama	...	Abdel (6 episodes, 2011)
Paco Boublard	...	Bambi (6 episodes, 2011)
Maxime Lombard	...	Francky Balducci (5 episodes, 2011)
Djena Tsimba	...	Fatou (5 episodes, 2011)
Victoria Abril	...	Olga (4 episodes, 2011)
Anne Consigny	...	Claire (4 episodes, 2011)
Mhamed Arezki	...	Tony jeune (4 episodes, 2011)
Juana Acosta	...	Olga jeune (4 episodes, 2011)
Julien Maurel	...	Marcel Balducci (4 episodes, 2011)
Walter Shnorkell	...	Dédé (4 episodes, 2011)
François Loriquet	...	Guichard (4 episodes, 2011)
Eric Fraticelli	...	Steeve Balducci (4 episodes, 2011)

Storyline

Details

Country:

France

Language:

French

Release Date:

16 March 2011 (France)

Also Known As:

Tony's Revenge

Company Credits

Production Co:

France 2 (FR2)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

52 min 52 min (8 episodes)

User Reviews

A new kind of french gangsters stories ?

This mini TV series was released six or seven months before Olivier Marchall's one: LES LYONNAIS. So it's not a copycat. Period. The two describe gangsters sagas, in a kind of way Francis Coppola did thirty years ago with his GODFATHER saga. The two first films.

Back to the french movies or TV series, for each of them, we watch stories told in modern times for the half, and thirty years ago for the other half. Flashbacks where the lives of the leads - gangsters, of course - are shown in a realistic way, fictitious or not. Old timers with their forgotten rules, their slang for one side, and new gangstas from their suburbs, for the other one. For both of these stories, there is lots of violence, some romance and enough emotion to entertain the audiences. The main difference between the two films would be the emphasis on the generation conflict. In the TV series - LES BEAUX MECS

• the lead has to deal with young hoodlums to get back in business,

because he has no more friends in life, and out of jail...And the screenplay insists plenty on that. The "old" gangster's point of view vs the young one's. In LES LYONNAIS, the film doesn't not insist so much on such things.

But the two stories have plenty in common. Especially the main characters: LANVIN and ABKARIAN.

I would prefer Olivier Marchall's feature. But the TV series is very interesting.