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Max and the Junkmen (Max et les ferrailleurs)
Rated NR · 107 min. · 2012
Drama
Drama
Max, chief police officer of the highway unit, has a very personal concept of justice: catching criminals red-handed. When a sting operation he's planned goes south, Max has a chance encounter with a childhood friend, Abel, who has fallen into pillaging the Nanterre zone of Paris with a group of ferrailleurs [junkmen]. Frustrated and obsessed by his inability to catch the professional criminals at his doorstep, Max hatches a plan to bring down Abel's amateur group. By starting a strange relationship with Lily, a prostitute with whom Abel lives, Max, passes himself off as a successful banker, and weaves a web of intrigue that he hopes will snare Abel and the ferrailleurs.
Official Site: www.rialtopictures.com/max.html
Director: Claude Sautet
Writer: Jean-Loup Dabadie and Claude Néron
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Georges Wilson, Bernard Fresson, François Périer, Boby Lapointe, Michel Creton, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jacques Canselier and Alain Grellier
Director: Claude Sautet
Writer: Jean-Loup Dabadie and Claude Néron
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Georges Wilson, Bernard Fresson, François Périer, Boby Lapointe, Michel Creton, Henri-Jacques Huet, Jacques Canselier and Alain Grellier
