L'aventure, c'est l'aventure
- Lino Ventura Lino Massaro
- Jacques Brel: Jacques
- Aldo Maccione: Aldo
- Charles Denner: Simon Duroc
- Charles Gérard: Charlot
- Johnny Hallyday: He himself
- André Falcon: Ambassador Armand Herzberg
- Juan Luis Buñuel: General Ernesto Juarez
- Alexandre Mnouchkine: John Davis
- Yves Robert: lawyer
The kidnappers let greet ( Original: L' aventure, c'est l' aventure ) is a comedy film by French director Claude Lelouch in 1971 He is comically, some bizarre kind of five in the tooths gangsters with it. a changed world confronts see where you simply a bank can not fall to make quick money.
Action
A court case highlights the incipient classic criminal career in the mid-1960s by Simon Duroc as a tire thief Jacques as a smuggler and Lino Massaro as an art forger with their mates Aldo and Charlot. After some time spent in prisons and " traumatic " experiences ( Lino Massaro loses as a pimp control over 3000 prostitutes who carry out a general strike, Jacques must invest for a bank robbery with 100,000 francs loot 60,000 francs ) they decide together in 1972 to modernize their traditional gangster methods. They take classes in political education and kidnap Johnny Halliday directly from a concert. This pays his ransom by check itself and can look forward to great publicity in the media. Next, General Ernesto Juarez, Swiss Ambassador Armand Herzberg is kidnapped on behalf of the Latin American revolutionary. For his release captured revolutionaries to be replaced. Since Juarez the five kidnappers do not want to pay the agreed salary of $ 200,000, this is promptly kidnapped and the ransom demand about $ 300,000 at the same time sent to the revolutionaries, the army and the CIA, which pay all the while trying to get Juarez. In the ensuing firefight, the hut is locked up in Juarez, destroyed.
Next, they hijack a Boeing 747 and offer up while the machine is still in the air, of the insurance company as a specialist for the replacement of, for two million dollars in cash.
The five hijackers enjoy their wealth in the South Seas, but start to get bored quickly. A trick they are now themselves kidnapped and presumed dead are the Juarez against which penetrates from them the surrender of ill-gotten money. At the same time he reveals it to the French judicial system, which makes them the process. For reasons of state them to escape from the courthouse is possible, and they are put in an African country. Here they could, in consultation with the military " next Wednesday " by coup to take power and thereby earn a lot of money. However, they decide to kidnap the already arriving in the country on Tuesday Pope and to demand a ransom of 1 franc every Catholic in the world, what they also succeed.
Reviews
" Only at times really amusing, the caper comedy mostly satisfied with burlesque jokes and harmless pranks. "