The Big Pardon
Released: January 27, 1982Runtime: 130 minLanguage: FR
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
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Roger Hanin
as Raymond Beitoun
Clio Goldsmith
as Viviane Atlan
Bernard Giraudeau
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Richard Berry
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Anny Duperey
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Jean Louis Trintignant
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Gerard Darmon
as Roland Zarma
Jean Pierre Bacri
as Jacky Azoulay
Armand Mestral
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Blanche Ravalec
as Colette Ambrosi
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