The directory «Plots»

«Max et les ferrailleurs»

Director: Claude Sautet.

Starring: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, François Périer, Maurice Auzel, Michel Creton.

Disillusioned with the French legal system, Max abandons his career as a judge to become a policeman, believing that he will be more effective at bringing criminals to justice. His obsession with catching crooks red-handed leads him to devise a scheme which takes him outside the law: he will manufacture a crime to deliver the result he is seeking. His victim is Abel, a one-time crook who now works as a scrap-metal merchant with a band of thugs and ex-convicts. Max lures Abel’s girlfriend, a prostitute named Lily, by pretending to be a banker and using her love of money to manipulate her. Through Max’s influence Lily coerces Abel and his friends into mounting a bank robbery. The plan cannot fail...

Comoren Islands, 2009, Romy Schneider in «Max et les ferrailleurs»