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A Gang Story (2011)

A Gang Story (2011)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 2011, November 10
Directors: Olivier Marchal
Countries: France
Production: LGM Productions, Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma
Cast: Olivier Rabourdin, Christophe Kourotchkine, Valéria Cavalli, Etienne Chicot, Tchéky Karyo, François Levantal, David Kammenos, Dimitri Storoge, Laurent Richard, Gérard Lanvin, Olivier Chantreau, Stéphane Caillard

Overview:

After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.

Keywords:

organized crime 1970s gang lyon france