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THE EMPEROR OF PARIS

L'EMPEREUR DE PARIS

By Jean-François RICHET

Action/Adventure - Completed 2018

Jean-François Richet and Vincent Cassel team up again
to tell the story of a fascinating character which inspired
the greatest authors like Victor Hugo for Les Miserables.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Action/Adventure
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Jean-François RICHET
- Cast
- Vincent CASSEL, Olga KURYLENKO, Fabrice LUCHINI, James THIÉRRÉE, Freya MAVOR, August DIEHL
- Synopsis
- At the height of Napoleon’s reign, Vidocq – the only man who successfully broke out from two high-security prisons – is a legend. Left for dead after his latest dazzling escape, the ex-con is laying low as a modest cloth merchant.
  Caught up by his past, he’s being framed by his former cellmates for a murder he didn’t commit. To prove his innocence and his good faith, he makes a deal with the police: he hunts down all the thieves and murderers in the streets of Paris, in exchange for his grace.
  From convict to sheriff… Vidocq becomes, without intending to, the Emperor of Paris.