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- Mesrine: Killer Instinct -- the first of two parts -- charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces.
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Mesrine is a two-part 2008 French biographical crime film on the life of French gangster Jacques Mesrine, directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet. The first part, Mesrine: Killer Instinct , was based on Mesrine's autobiographical book L'instinct de mort , while the second part, Mesrine: Public Enemy Number ...
Jacques Mesrine. Jacques Mesrine ( French pronunciation: [ʒak mɛʁin, mɛsʁin]; [a] 28 December 1936 – 2 November 1979) was a French criminal responsible for numerous murders, bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France, the US, and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final ...
Oct 22, 2008 · With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Gilles Lellouche. The story of the notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine, with the focus on his life before the early 1970s and the events that led to him being declared Public Enemy No. 1 in France.
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- Action, Biography, Crime
- Jean-François Richet
- 2008-10-22
Aug 25, 2010 · Powered by JustWatch. Jacques Mesrine was a brutal man who shot dead 39 victims during his 20-year run as a bank robber and kidnapper. That total doesn't include the prisoners, possibly dozens, executed point blank after they'd been tortured during France's war against Algeria.
Mesrine defiantly chooses crime over workaday labor and soon becomes the protégé and later the partner of Guido (a terrific Gérard Depardieu), a hulking mob boss with a malicious little smile and...
Dec 12, 2014 · That last detail comes from one of the many YouTube videos you can watch of the shooting’s aftermath, waiting to be compared with Jean-François Richet’s 2008 two-part film Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One, both starring Vincent Cassel.
Aug 6, 2009 · This was the year in which Jacques Mesrine, a notorious French bankrobber, murderer, media darling and compulsive self-publicist who revelled in his title of Public Enemy Number One, was cut...
