''The Swindle'' (french: Rien ne va plus) is a 1997 French
crime
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comedy film
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directed by
Claude Chabrol that stars
Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. She is the recipient of sev ...
and
Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
Life and career
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's '' Les ...
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Plot
Victor and Betty are small-time confidence tricksters operating from a camper van who specialise in business conventions. Betty lures a delegate to a hotel room, where she slips him knock-out drops. Victor then joins her and they go through his cash, cheques, credit cards and passport. Victor's golden rule is never to be greedy, instead taking just a bit from each victim.
Betty enjoys exercising her powers of attraction, however, and gets more ambitious. She starts an affair with Maurice, who is a courier for money launderers and has to deliver an attaché case to the Caribbean. Victor reluctantly joins her plot, and they switch Maurice's case, which contains 5 million Swiss francs, for an identical case they have filled with newspaper. When Maurice's contacts find they have been swindled, they first torture him to death and then go looking for Victor and Betty. After the two have undergone some brutal questioning, they hand over the right case with 2.8 million Swiss francs in it. Fooled by Victor's golden rule, the gangsters let the pair go.
Victor, cross with Betty for stepping out of their league and endangering their lives, disappears with the 2.2 million Swiss francs he kept. She tracks him down at his Swiss hideaway and in the end the two make up.
Cast
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Isabelle Huppert
Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert (; born 16 March 1953) is a French actress. Described as "one of the best actresses in the world", she is known for her portrayals of cold and disdainful characters devoid of morality. She is the recipient of sev ...
as Elizabeth / Betty
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Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films.
Life and career
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's '' Les ...
as Victor
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François Cluzet as Maurice Biagini
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Jean-François Balmer
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as Monsieur K
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Jackie Berroyer
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Filmography
References
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1946 births
Living people
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French male television actors
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as Robert Chatillon
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Jean Benguigui
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as Guadeloupe Gangster
* Mony Dalmès as Signora Trotti (as Mony Dalmes)
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Thomas Chabrol
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Filmography
On stage
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1963 births
20th-century French male actors
21st-century French male ac ...
as Swiss Desk Clerk
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Yves Verhoeven
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Selected filmography
References
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1961 births
Living people
French male film actors
People from Seine-Mar ...
as Pickpocket
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Henri Attal
Henri Attal (1936 in Paris
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as Greek Vendor
See also
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Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage
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1997 films
1997 comedy films
1990s crime comedy films
French crime comedy films
1990s French-language films
Films directed by Claude Chabrol
Films featuring a Best Actor Lumières Award-winning performance
Films about con artists
Films produced by Marin Karmitz
1990s French films
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