After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.After leaving prison, master thief Corey crosses paths with a notorious escapee and an alcoholic former policeman. The trio proceed to plot an elaborate heist.
Bourvil
- Le Commissaire Francois Mattei
- (as André Bourvil)
Gian Maria Volontè
- Vogel
- (as Gian-Maria Volonte)
François Périer
- Santi
- (as François Perier)
Anna Douking
- L'ancienne amie de Corey
- (as Ana Douking)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe heist sequence lasts for exactly 27 minutes and features no dialogue at all.
- GoofsWhen Mattei returns to his office after Le Receleur's son has overdosed, he pulls the door open. In the next cut from inside the office, Mattei is seen pushing the door open.
- Quotes
Le chef de la police: All men are guilty. They're born innocent, but it doesn't last.
- Crazy creditsThe movie's Opening Credits include an epigraph: "Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, drew a circle with a piece of red chalk and said: 'When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle.'" This quote explains the title of the film.
- Alternate versionsAn alternate, 83-minute English-language version also exists, wherein most of the lead performers delivered their lines in (generally phonetic) English. This version was released to Korean home video under the title "Circle It In Red", although the actual onscreen title of the print reads "The Red Circle".
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sous le nom de Melville (2008)
Featured review
As Good As It Gets
This is only the second film I've checked out on IMDB and both have had negative user comments. In this case the person contributing comments was a tad chauvinistic and appeared to be strongly biased against French movies. I am English and can't get enough of French movies,but I also can't get enough of GOOD movies, be they English, American, French, Italian, whatever. Whichever way you slice it Le Cercle Rouge is a masterpiece, shot by a director at, as the cliche has it, the height of his powers. Cool, stylish, slick, professional,call it what you will, it's a winner. Everyone is on top of their game,not least Bourvil in a rare attempt at straight acting - he is best known as a zany comic in a series of box office smashes that don't translate well into English. The Melville schtick, a set-piece, is a doozy this time around, a jewellery heist on the Place Vendome, carried out in total silence in a nod to Rififfi and if anything surpassing it. The sombre,muted tones, embody the sense of cool and also the melancholy that informs the film making anything other than a downbeat ending unthinkable. Like the man said, if you only see one movie this year make it this one.
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- writers_reign
- Jul 28, 2003
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Le Cercle Rouge
- Filming locations
- Place du Panthéon, Paris 5, Paris, France(arrest of Santi's son)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $432,820
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $14,843
- Jan 12, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $473,646
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