Mesrine: Killer Instinct — the first of two parts — charts the outlaw odyssey of Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), the legendary French gangster of the 1960s and 1970s who came to be known as French Public Enemy No. 1 and The Man of a Thousand Faces. Infamous for his bravado and outrageously daring prison escapes, Mesrine carried out numerous robberies, kidnappings and murders in a criminal career that spanned continents until he was shot dead in 1979 by France’s notorious anti-gang unit. Thirty years after his death, his infamy lives on. Mesrine was helped along the way by beautiful and equally reckless Jeanne Schneider (Cécile de France), a Bonnie to match his Clyde. Mesrine made up his own epic, between romanticism and cruelty, flamboyance and tragedy.
Release Date: 22 October 2008Runtime: 113 min
Stars:
- Abdelhafid Metalsi
- Cécile De France
- Deano Clavet
- Elena Anaya
- Florence Thomassin
- Gérard Depardieu
- Gilbert Sicotte
- Gilles Lellouche
- Ludivine Sagnier
- Michel Duchaussoy
- Mustapha Abourachid
- Myriam Boyer
- Roy Dupuis
- Sofiane Benrazzak
- Vincent Cassel
Director: Jean-François Richet
