J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster (2008)
Directed by Samuel Benchetrit

Crime / Comedy / Drama
aka: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

Film Synopsis

A young woman has just started working at a sombre café beside a desolate car park.  Her first few days here prove to be more eventful than she could have imagined...  First, an unarmed bandit tries to run off with the till.  Then, two amateur kidnappers try to abduct a suicidal teenager.  Two singers talk about a hit that was stolen from them.  A gang of seventy-year-olds, all former bank robbers, reminisce about the good old days before setting out to find a safe hideout.  It seems that everyone wants to be a gangster these days...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Samuel Benchetrit
  • Script: Samuel Benchetrit
  • Cinematographer: Pierre Aïm
  • Music: Dimitri Tikovoi
  • Cast: Anna Mouglalis (Suzy - la serveuse), Edouard Baer (Gino - le braqueur), Jean Rochefort (Jean), Laurent Terzieff (Émile), Jean-Pierre Kalfon (Max), Venantino Venantini (Joe), Roger Dumas (Pierrot la Pince), Alain Bashung (Alain Bashung), Arno (Arno), Bouli Lanners (Léon), Serge Larivière (Paul dit Paulo), Selma El Mouissi (Malaury Stone), Gérald Laroche (Le patron), Gábor Rassov (Le cuisinier), Samuel Benchetrit (Récitant)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Black and White
  • Runtime: 113 min
  • Aka: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

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