Classe tous risques

Classe Tous Risques
Directed byClaude Sautet
Written byClaude Sautet
José Giovanni
Pascal Jardin
Based onClasse tous risques by José Giovanni
Produced byJean Darvey
StarringLino Ventura
Sandra Milo
Jean-Paul Belmondo
CinematographyGhislain Cloquet
Edited byAlbert Jurgenson
Music byGeorges Delerue
Production
companies
Mondex Films
Les Films Odéon
Filmsonor
Zebra Films
Distributed byCinédis (France)
Janus Films (US)
Release date
  • 23 March 1960 (1960-03-23)
Running time
104 minutes
CountriesFrance
Italy
LanguagesFrench
Italian
Box office1,726,839 admissions (France)

Classe tous risques ([klas tu ʁisk]; literally "All-Risk Class", but also a pun on the French expression "Classe Touriste", Economy Class), which was first released in the United States as The Big Risk, is a 1960 French-Italian gangster film directed by Claude Sautet and starring Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sandra Milo. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by José Giovanni, who collaborated with Sautet and Pascal Jardin on the screenplay, the film tells the story of a French mobster on the run with his family, who returns to Paris with help from a new criminal acquaintance and confronts the members of his old gang.

Now widely considered a masterpiece, at the time of its release, the film was somewhat overshadowed by the French New Wave. However, it did influence French cinema, especially Jean-Pierre Melville's subsequent work.


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