Borsalino (1970) on Netflix
Fresh out of prison in 1930 Marseille, Roch Siffredi looks for Lola, now with François Capella. The two fight over her, then team up to fix horse races and prizefights.
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Plot summary
In 1930s Marseille, Roch Siffredi and François Capella are small-time crooks who meet brawling over a woman named Lola and decide to enter into a partnership. Siffredi is the methodical one, Capella brusque and emotional with a weakness for women. Their work fixing gambling, bribing and taking contract work for a percentage, brings them renown. That renown leads Siffredi to believe they can reach greater heights in Marseille's crime world, something Capella is against at first. Moving ahead means dealing with Marello and Poli, who between them control most of the crime in Marseille and have kept peace by not stepping on each other's territory. Maître Rinaldi, a lawyer with political aspirations who gives the bosses legitimacy, advises them against proceeding.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Borsalino (1970)
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- Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon had contracts requiring them to receive the same number of close-ups, a clause that prompted Delon to dye his hair black for his role in the film.
- The film is based on real-life gangsters Paul Carbone and François Spirito, who collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of France in the Second World War, a detail the film never mentions.
- Jean-Paul Belmondo sued Alain Delon in court over how their names were billed, objecting that the title card "an Alain Delon Production" appeared before his own name in the credits.
- The title came from the Borsalino company, whose distinctive fedora had its golden age between the 1920s and 1940s; as a consequence of the film, there was a revival in the popularity of Borsalino hats.
- The film was originally to be called Carbone and Spirito, but objections about using the names of real gangsters led to the characters being fictionalized and the title idea being dropped.
