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Le Samouraï is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville released in USA on 1 march 1997 with Alain Delon
Le Samouraï (1967)
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Add to a movie listLe Samouraï ([lə samuʁaj]; The Samurai, Italian: ''Frank Costello faccia d'angelo'') is a 1967 French-Italian crime film directed by French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Alain Delon as Jef Costello.
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Hitman Jef Costello (Delon) lives in a single-room Parisian apartment whose spartan furnishings include a little bird in a cage. A long opening shot shows him lying on his bed, smoking, when the following text appears on-screen:Actors
Alain Delon
(Jef Costello)
François Périer
(Superintendant)
Nathalie Delon
(Jane Lagrange)
Michel Boisrond
(Wiener)
Cathy Rosier
(Valérie)
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