''Une fille et des fusils'' is a 1965 French film directed by
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained criti ...
. It is also known in the English-speaking world as ''The Decadent Influence'' or ''To Be a Crook''.
Plot
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn more money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their following deeds.
Cast
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Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 30 October 1938) is a French actor and singer.
Selected filmography
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1938 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
Male actors from Paris
French male stage a ...
as ''Jean-Pierre''
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Amidou
Hamidou Benmessaoud ( ar, حميدو بنمسعود; 2 August 1935 – 19 September 2013), best known as Amidou, was a Moroccan-French film, television, and stage actor.
Born in Rabat, at 17 Amidou moved to Paris to attend the CNSAD. In 1968 he m ...
as ''Amidou''
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Pierre Barouh
Pierre Barouh (born Élie Pierre Barouh; 19 February 1934 – 28 December 2016) was a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film ''A Man and a Woman'' as an actor and the lyricist/singer for Francis Lai's music ...
as ''Pierre''
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Jacques Portet as ''Jacques''
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Janine Magnan as ''Martine''
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Yane Barry as ''the bistrokeeper''
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Betty Beckers
Betty Beckers (3 May 1925, in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. People from Villeneuve-Saint-Georges are called ''Villene ...
as ''the prostitute''
Background
*With the film becoming Lelouch's first commercial success, he attempted to destroy all copies and negatives of his previous films. Lelouche failed to find a distributor for his next film, ''
Les grands moments,'' and he then destroyed that film as well.
*Lelouch recycled some ideas from for ''Une fille et des fusils'' film in his later works, such as the shooting of bottles in
''Le bon et les méchants'' and the economic catastrophes in ''
L'aventure, c'est l'aventure''.
References
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1965 films
French crime comedy films
Films directed by Claude Lelouch
1960s French-language films
1960s French films
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