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Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1

Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1

(Mesrine : L’ Ennemi public n°1), Jean-François Richet / FR - CAN, 2007
French / Czech subtitles, 130 min

The second and final part of the biographical drama about Jacques Mesrine, one of the last French gangsters and the most well-known criminal of his time. The myth of Jacques Mesrine is still alive, even 30 years after his death. Who was Jacques Mesrine? A boy from a good family? A soldier? A bank robber? A womanizer? A dissuasive father? A master of escape from jail? A cruel and violent man? A media manipulator? Mesrine used to wear all these masks at the same time, therefore he was called “The Man of a Thousand Faces”.

Récit des crimes spectaculaires de Jacques Mesrine, celui que les médias sacreront « l’ennemi public n°1 », traqué par toutes les polices de France jusqu’à sa mort. Une évocation de sa vie depuis son retour d'Algérie, à travers son départ pour le Canada en 1968, jusqu’à son assassinat par la brigade antigang porte de Clignancourt le 2 novembre 1979.