Saturday, October 25, 2014

Old and nice : La Traversée de Paris 1956



Paris in 1942. Taxi driver unemployed, Marcel Martin makes his living delivering parcels in the black market . One day, he must carry on foot, on the other side of the capital, four suitcases containing a pig cut. He went into the basement of a named tibialis and plays the accordion while we kill the animal.
It then runs with his wife Mariette to the restaurant where he must find his accomplice. He learns that he has been arrested by the police. A stranger then enters the restaurant and on a misunderstanding, fearing that he had slipped an appointment to his wife, Martin invited him to share his meal and work with him.
This choice is quickly calamitous as this new character, a Grandgil, is far from docile. It first provides a substantial increase in salary terrorizing the unfortunate tibialis. Then he destroyed the bottles a bistro, where two accomplices hiding from the police, and treats customers "poor bastards". It will even knock a policeman in the neighborhood where Martin lives. And when fleeing a German patrol, they end up taking refuge in the apartment of Grandgil is stunned to discover that Martin is a painter of some renown who has followed that for entertainment.
However, pursuing the way, they finally arrive at the delivery address but found the door locked. They make such a racket when a German patrol operates. Kommandatur inwhere they are taken, a German officer recognized the painter Grandgil. He is about to do the release announcement when the murder of a colonel. The German officer fails to save in extremis that Grandgil while Martin, he was sent to Germany to STO
The years passed. Paris is released, and we find Grandgil a station platform Lyon followed by a carrier bags. The top of the window of the car, suddenly recognizes Grandgil Martin, as always carrying suitcases of others.

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