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Certificate 15

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo Jean-Pierre Melville Henri-Jacques Huet Jean Seberg

Directors Jean-Luc Godard

Screenwriters Jean-Luc Godard Francois Truffaut

Running Time 90 minutes

A Bout De Souffle
Godard's New Wave crime classic

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Plot
A young French car thief, with shades of Humphrey Bogart, goes on the run with his American girlfriend after he kills a policeman.

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