Despite the large timekeeping (2.20), I looked effortlessly and with interest, and not so much to the plot itself as to how it was filmed. The plot is not very complicated, the detective component and acting characters are used in order to once again show how rare decent people are in life, and in this film, some criminals are more
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Despite the large timekeeping (2.20), I looked effortlessly and with interest, and not so much to the plot itself as to how it was filmed. The plot is not very complicated, the detective component and acting characters are used in order to once again show how rare decent people are in life, and in this film, some criminals are more likely to show positive qualities than the police officers pursuing them. The film begins with an epigraph: “If people, even strangers, are one day destined to meet, no matter what happens to them, no matter how their paths diverge, on the appointed day they will inevitably meet in a red circle,” which was invented by Melville himself, although attributed to Gautama Buddha. And indeed, seemingly random people converge in the film, and events really lead them to this ill-fated red circle in which they are destined to die. In a Marseille prison, Coret (Alain Delon) is serving his sentence, suddenly the warden announces to him that he will be released early literally tomorrow and shares with him his secret - the idea of how to rob a large jewelry store in the center of Paris, out of selfish interest, of course. Kore is at first negative about it, he doesn’t want to go to prison again, but in the end he listens to it. After leaving prison, he goes to his former partner Rico, whom he did not betray, which, however, did not stop Rico from taking away the woman Cora, Kore forces him to open the safe, takes the money and the gun and leaves. Rico sends his men to get him back, but to no avail. At the same time on the train, Commissioner Mattei (Andre Bourville) takes another prisoner to Paris for questioning - Vogel (Jan-Maria Volonte), who manages to escape through the window. Huge squads of policemen are sent to search for Vogel (the question arises - why so much? What is he accused of?), but it is impossible to find him, and fate at this time brings Vogel and Kore together, and then they already work together. There are also new characters - the owner of the restaurant Santi (François Perrier), a former policeman-alcoholic Jansen (Yves Montane), whom they hire as a shooter who must turn off the alarm system with a shot, while it turns out that in their human qualities, although they are bandits, they clearly surpass at least the same Commissioner Mattei. It’s a noir movie that Melville has always been fascinated with, some pretty long scenes go without words and we see them almost in real time.
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