One named Rocca

One named Rocca is a film free - Italian carried out by Jean Becker and left in 1961.

Synopsis

Roberto Rocca, with the last disorder, was withdrawn from the “businesses” in the countryside. One day, an adviser teaches him that his/her friend Xavier Adé was wrongfully imprisoned for murder. In order to come to assistance of his/her friend, Rocca contacts, in Marseilles, the ex-associate of Xavier, whom he suspects of this machination. During their confrontation, Rocca the slaughtering and, blow, joins again with the “medium” in engrossing of its gambling den. It pursues nevertheless its goal by uniting Genevieve, the sister of Xavier. At the time of a racket, it is wounded and captured. It finds Xavier in prison. One proposes to them to anticipate their release if they agree to take part in the mine clearance of garrigues maritime remained trapped since the second world war. At the time of the one of these dangerous operations, Xavier loses an arm while wanting to protect Rocca. This heroic act is worth their immediate liberation to them. Xavier and his sister wish to join for the future Rocca by buying a great property together. Without informing Rocca of it, Xavier benefits from the infirmity of Nevada, a rich person gangster, to extort the money necessary to him. While Xavier left to sign the act of purchase, the henchmen of Nevada make irruption in its residence where they find Rocca and Genevieve. During the brawl which follows, Genevieve is mortally wounded while interposing in front of the revolver which aimed at Rocca. This one definitively breaks its friendship with Xavier whom it makes responsible for the death of Genevieve.

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Dissatisfied of the film adaptation of its novel carried out by Jean Becker, Jose Giovanni will carry out her own version in 1972, under the title Scoumoune , always with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the high-speed motorboat…

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At the beginning of the Years 1960, Jean-Paul Belmondo came by twice to Martigues during turnings of the first Feature-length films of fiction of wire of two talented realizers. In 1961, it is in company of Pierre Vaneck in the garrigues martégales for the scenes of the mine clearance in dramatic the One named Rocca carried out by Jean Becker while in 1963 it is found with Jeanne Moreau on a quay of the downtown area for some plans of the comedy Peau of banana realized by Marcel Ophüls. Two productions free - Italy filmed in Black and white by wire which, as worthy heirs to their fathers, will also become of talented scenario writers.

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