Le Professionnel
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| Directed by | Georges Lautner |
| Produced by | Alain Belmondo |
| Written by | Michel Audiard Georges Lautner Patrick Alexander (novel) |
| 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 |
Le Professionnel (The Professional) is a 1981 movie directed by French director Georges Lautner, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly and Robert Hossein, based on the award-winning 1976 novel Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal by Patrick Alexander.
The music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
[edit] Plot
French Secret Agent Josselin Beaumont is sent to Malagawi ( a fictional African country) to kill their president for life (in other words their dictator) Colonel Njala. However, before Beaumont can get to Malagawi, the political situation changes and the French secret service betrays him to the African authorities, and after a long and unfair trial (Beaumont is injected with drugs) he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After a daring escape he returns to France and informs his former chiefs of his presence promising that he will kill Njala, who is in France for an official visit, and get his revenge on the people who betrayed him. The betrayers get nervous and send secret police on Beaumont’s trail, but Beaumont is always one step ahead, and manages to humiliate and even kill some of the major betrayers. Beaumont eventually manages to kill Njala – he leads his rivals to accidentally kill the dictator, but as he tries to escape, he is gunned down by the French government.
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