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Happy New Year is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Lelouch released in USA on 12 december 1973 with Lino Ventura
Happy New Year (1973)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 12 december 1973
Length 1h55
Directed by Claude Lelouch
OriginFrance
Themes Heist films
Rating72%
La bonne année (also known in the U.S. as Happy New Year) is a 1973 film directed by Claude Lelouch.
Synopsis
A gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, they find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group.Actors
Lino Ventura
(Simon)
Françoise Fabian
(Françoise)
Charles Gérard
(Charlot)
André Falcon
(Jeweler)
Claude Mann
(Intellectual)
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