La Scoumoune | |
Director: | José Giovanni |
Producer: | Raymond Danon |
Screenplay: | José Giovanni |
Starring: | Jean Paul Belmondo Claudia Cardinale |
Music: | François de Roubaix |
Cinematography: | Andréas Winding |
Editing: | Françoise Javet |
Country: | France |
Language: | French |
Gross: | 1,966,700 admissions (France)[1] |
La Scoumoune ("Bad luck") is a 1972 French film directed by José Giovanni, starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale and Michel Constantin. It is an adaptation of Giovanni's novel L'Excommunié.[2]
La Scoumoune is a remake of a 1961 French movie, A Man Named Rocca, directed by Jean Becker, also based on Giovanni's novel and starring Belmondo in the same part.
In the mid-1930s mobster Roberto La Rocca (Jean-Paul Belmondo) comes to Marseille to help his friend who was framed by the local crime bosses. Roberto is caught up in clashes between different gangs and as a result serves a long sentence in prison for the murder of several enemy gang members. Once in prison he begins to prepare his escape.