Cap Canaille
1983Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.
Acted in
Juliet Berto
as Paula Baretto
Richard Bohringer
as Robert Vergès
Jean-Claude Brialy
as Me Samuel Kebadjan
Bernadette Lafont
as Mireille Kebadjan
Patrick Chesnais
as Wim
Gérard Darmon
as Nino Baretto
Richard Anconina
as Mayolles
Nini Crépon
as Dugrand
Raúl Gimenez
as Ernest la gâchette
Andrex
as Pascal Andreucci
Jean Maurel
as Ange Andreucci
Isabelle Ho
as Miss Li
Pierre Maguelon
as Varenne
Yann Dedet
as Henchman
Nicola Donato
as Henchman
Alexandre Fabre
as Henchman
Alain Chevallier
as Jean-Philippe
Daniela Bisconti
as Barmaid
Samy Szlingerbaum
as Wagons-lits employee