Happy New Year

Apr 13, 1973

1h 55m

★ 7.2

Overview

Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Les Films 13

Rizzoli Film

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Cast

Simon

Lino Ventura

Françoise

Françoise Fabian

Charlot

Charles Gérard

Jeweler

André Falcon

Self

Mireille Mathieu

Madame Félix

Lilo

Intellectual

Claude Mann

Parisian Lover

Frédéric de Pasquale

Prison Warden

Gérard Sire

Italian Lover

Silvano Tranquilli

André Barello

Michel Bertay

In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she steals something, a mysterious man pays for it. A clumsy detective begins investigating and finds a crucial clue: a strongly scented woman's glove. The perfume is an expensive scent and the detective's pal realizes that it belongs to a popular nightclub singer. The friend quickly becomes enamored of the girl, but then so does her mystery man, a notorious international criminal. Eventually he gets arrested, leaving the detective's pal to move in on the singer.

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