Director
Jean-François Richet
Starring
Vincent Cassel, Olga Kurylenko, Patrick Chesnais, August Diehl, Denis Lavant, Freya Mavor
Run Time
111 mins
Release Year
2018
Country of Origin
France
Language
French
Director of Photography: Manuel Dacosse
Editor: Hervé Schneid
Produced by: Eric Altmayer, Nicolas Altmayer
Music: Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp
Screenplay by: Éric Besnard, Jean-François Richet
BOTF: The Emperor of Paris (L'empereur de Paris)
Part of the Best of the Fest Strand
Vincent Cassel is the perfect period anti-hero in this violent, impressively staged historical action thriller. Based on the life of infamous criminal Eugène François Vidocq, whose turn to crime-fighting inspired the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, The Emperor of Paris is set against the backdrop of Napoleonic France. Scottish actress Freya Mavor also stars as pickpocket Annette, who the reformed Vidocq falls for; Olga Kurylenko is the powerful La Baronne; and Denis Lavant impresses as gang leader Maillard. [15]
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