Le vieux fusil

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Le vieux fusil

Directed by	Robert Enrico
Written by	Robert Enrico Pascal Jardin Claude Veillot
Starring	Philippe Noiret Romy Schneider
Music by	François de Roubaix
Cinematography	Etienne Becker
Editing by	Ava Zora Eva Zora
Distributed by	Mercure Productions
Release date(s)	22 August 1975
Running time	103 min.
Country	France
Language	French
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Le vieux fusil (The Old Gun aka Vengeance One by One) is a 1975 French film directed by Robert Enrico, and starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider and Jean Bouise. It won the 1976 César Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Music, and was nominated for best director, supporting actor, writing, cinematography, editing and sound.

[edit] Plot

In Montauban in 1944, during the German occupation of France, Julien Dandieu is an aging, embittered surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the weekend, but the Germans are already occupying the village. Dandieu loses his wife and daughter to Nazi bullets. He vows to personally kill every one of the Germans responsible (along with a few who weren't) in order to assuage his grief.