Any Number Can Win
Feature Film/ France/ 93 min/2023
Director: Henri Verneuil
Screenwriter: Michel Audiard, Albert Simonin
Director of Photography: Louis Page
Production: Jacques Juranville, Jacques Bar
Music Composer: Michel Magne
Production designer: Robert Clavel
Cast: Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Claude Cerval, Viviane Romance, Henri Virlogeux, Jean Carmet, José Luis de Vilallonga, Rita Cadillac, Dominique Davray, Dora Doll, Germaine Montero, Maurice Biraud, Carla Marlier, Georges Billy, Henri Attal
Synopsis:
Charles, recently released from prison and looking to retire comfortably overseas with his wife. To make this happen, of course, he’ll need to pull off one final caper, so he recruits young desperado Francis Verlot (Delon) whom he’d met in prison. Verlot travels to Cannes under an alias as a wealthy high-roller and courts Brigitte (Carla Marlier), a dancer at one of the city’s top casinos, where Charles will meet him later to pull off a heist of the casino vault.
Director’s biography:
Henri Verneuil was born on 15 October 1920 in Rodosto, Ottoman Empire [now Tekirdag, Turkey]. He was a director and writer, known for I… For Icarus (1979), The Sheep Has Five Legs (1954) and Mother (1991). He was married to Véronique Sedro and Françoise Bonnot. He died on 11 January 2002 in Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
