Le Professionnel

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Le Professionnel
Directed by	Georges Lautner
Produced by	Alain Belmondo
Written by	Michel Audiard Georges Lautner
Starring	Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean Desailly Robert Hossein
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Cinematography	Henri Decaë
Editing by	Michelle David
Release date(s)	1981
Running time	104 minutes
Language	French
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Le Professionnel (The Professional) is a movie directed by French director Georges Lautner, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly and Robert Hossein.

It features the song Chi Mai by Ennio Morricone.

[edit] Plot

French secret agent Josselin Beaumont (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is sent to Malagawi (a fictional African country) to kill their president-for-life, Colonel Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After a daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country in an official visit.