Ballade pour un voyou (1963)
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Laurent Terzieff, Hildegard Knef, Michel Vitold, Daniel Emilfork, Etienne Bierry, Philippe Noiret, Marc Duchamp, Jacques Bertrand, Jean Martinelli, Robert Bousquet
A former heist convict is drawn into an international intelligence scramble when he is tasked with delivering a briefcase whose danger he does not know.
The story
A mysterious spy arrives at Orly, where police and several intelligence services are waiting, all eager to obtain his briefcase. His contact, Stéphane, retrieves it and assigns Vincent, a provincial mechanic with a prison sentence for a heist in his past, to deliver it to its intended recipient. Vincent accepts the errand without knowing that the package is booby-trapped, placing an unwitting courier at the center of a contest among competing authorities.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A mysterious spy arrives at Orly, where the police and various intelligence services are waiting for him, all coveting his briefcase. His contact, Stéphane, retrieves it and entrusts Vincent—a mechanic in the provinces who served time in prison for a heist—with delivering it to its intended recipient. But Vincent doesn’t know the package is booby-trapped.
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