The Damned Lovers (French: Les amants maudits) is a 1952 French crime film directed by Willy Rozier and starring Robert Berri, Jacques Dynam, and Ginette Baudin. A film noir, it has been described as a "post-Liberation French Bonnie and Clyde story".Walker-Morrison p.44 It attracted audiences of around 1.1 million at the French domestic box office.Walker-Morrison p.224
Synopsis A cafe waiter reads crime novels and dreams of being a somebody. In order to impress his girlfriend he steals a car and becomes a real-life gangster.
Cast Danièle Roy as Jacky Robert Berri as Paul Morelli Denise Cardi as Maryse Jacques Dynam as Raoul René Alié as Giaccomidi Ginette Baudin as Tamara Georges Tourreil as the Director of Police Jean Lara as the Director of Sports Films Maurice Bénard as Inspector Mavraux Marco Villa as Dédé Milly Mathis as La marseillaise Yves Furet as Léo
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Bibliography Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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