Le Clan des Siciliens
Director: Henri Verneuil
Genre: Crime Thriller, Gangster, Caper story, Drama, Crime Fiction
Year: 1969
Country: France
Language: French Language, Italian Language, English Language
Starring: Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Jean Gabin, Sydney Earle Chaplin, Irina Demick, Amedeo Nazzari, Elisa Cegani, Karen Blanguernon, Philippe Baronnet, Yves Brainville, Gérard Buhr
The Sicilian Clan (original French title: Le clan des siciliens) is a 1969 French crime film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura and Alain Delon. The film was largely marketed by the casting together of three of the leading French movie actors of the day.
The film score was written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone. The main theme is a variation on Johann Sebastian Bach's, Prelude and Fugue in A minor.
In Paris, bloodthirsty jewel thief Roger Sartet (Alain Delon) escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small-time but well-organised Sicilian Mafia clan led by patriarch Vittorio (Jean Gabin) and which includes his sons Aldo (Yves Lefebvre) and Sergio (Marc Porel) and son-in-law Luigi (Philippe Baronnet). While in prison, Sartet got to know an electrician (Christian de Tillière) who was involved in the setting up of an extensive security system at a diamond exhibition in Rome — the electrician returned home early, unannounced, caught his wife in bed with a lover and shot them! Unaccustomed to prison life, he made friends with Sartet and bit-by-bit supplied him with details of the exhibition.
Vittorio and a fellow Mafiose, Tony Nicosia
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