Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jean-Paul Belmondo | ... | Bart Cordell | |
Carla Gravina | ... | Liza Rocquencourt | |
Jean Rochefort | ... | Le nonce (André Berthier) | |
Charles Denner | ... | David Loweinstein | |
Jean Desailly | ... | Jean-Pierre Carnavan | |
Jean Martin | ... | Mgr. Schneider | |
Maurice Garrel | ... | Brayen | |
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Pierre Grasset | ... | Pierre Delmas |
Maureen Kerwin | ... | Lauren Corey | |
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François Chaumette | ... | Maître Georges Theron-Maillard |
Michel Beaune | ... | Frédéric Lambert | |
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Marcel Cuvelier | ... | Le Ministre |
Fosco Giachetti | ... | Luigi Balazzi | |
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Anna Orso | ... | Giovanella Cordell |
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Paul Amiot | ... | Hugo Cordell |
Bart Cordell, is unanimously considered as a daddy's boy and an insignificant playboy. So, when he suddenly becomes head of his father's financial empire following his death, nobody understandably expects much from him. They could not be wronger....! Written by Guy Bellinger
Canal D has been showing some Belmondo films from the Seventies lately; this one is typical of his middle period, before Depardieu took over his mantle. Here we have a businessman who is battling rivals for control of a media empire created by his father. Into the mix is thrown Jewish deportations during World War II, contemporary Italian right-wing politics, muckraking journalists... It's really too much for the frail structure of a commercial thriller. The talented cast isn't given much to do, and suspension of disbelief goes too far (how could Cordell and the writer have survived that attack by two hitmen with rifles shooting directly down on them?).