| Les Aventuriers | |
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| Directed by | Robert Enrico |
| Produced by | Gérard Beytout and René Pignières |
| Screenplay by | Robert Enrico José Giovanni Pierre Pilegri |
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| Music by | François de Roubaix, arranged by Bernard Gérard (first assistant) |
| Cinematography | Jean Boffety |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1967 |
| Running time | 113 |
| Country | France / Italy |
| Language | French |
Les Aventuriers is (despite its title) a drama film directed by Robert Enrico. It is based on a novel by José Giovanni.
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Three very likeable losers fail while they pursue individual goals. Roland Darbont (Lino Ventura) is an inventor who has designed his own engine. Manu Borelli (Alain Delon) on the other hand is a pilot who prepares a spectacular stunt. Both of them are running tests on Darbont's premises when they are joined by Laetitia Weiss (Joanna Shimkus), an artist who builds abstract statues from scrap metal. They nourish each others hopes and learn to get along with each other. But then Darbont's test vehicle blows up and nearly kills him. The damage is so grave that he has neither the means nor the will to start all over. Manu Borelli can execute his dangerous stunt but he loses his license as a pilot and it even turns out that he had fallen for a practical joke and won't receive any payment. Laetitia seems to succeed when she gets her art exhibition, still she can't sell a piece. So they decide to undertake altogether an ill-fated endeavour as treasure hunters.
The film is partly shot on relatively exotic locations. Especially Fort Boyard deserves to be mentioned.[1] Like the Maginot line in Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004) it becomes the stage of a final showdown. Both films are in a way memorials for remarkable French accomplishments which are otherwise in main interesting for historians and military experts only.