Le Voyou | |
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Directed by | Claude Lelouch |
Written by | Claude Lelouch Claude Pinoteau Pierre Uytterhoeven |
Produced by | Georges Dancigers Alexandre Mnouchkine |
Starring | Jean-Louis Trintignant Danièle Delorme |
Cinematography | Claude Lelouch |
Edited by | Marie-Claude Lacambre |
Music by | Francis Lai |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
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Language | French |
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The film won the David di Donatello for Best Foreign Direction in 1971.
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