Cap Canaille 1983

Directors Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto begin this thriller with sequences on the contemporary politics of southern France and the infiltration of organised crime into real estate development there: crime bosses were torching forest tracts to make way for their development schemes in the early 1980s. In the fictionalised story, Paula Barretto is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the drug business, her brother is in the real estate scam, and her lover is an armed thief. Although she tries to get out of her corrupt and dangerous environment, it is not an easy task when even the police officers cannot be trusted, and the underworld has informants everywhere.

Cast:

Juliet Berto
Paula Baretto 

Richard Bohringer
Robert Vergès 

Jean-Claude Brialy
Me Samuel Kebadjan 

Bernadette Lafont
Mireille Kebadjan 

Patrick Chesnais
Wim 

Gérard Darmon
Nino Baretto