The Swindle
- IMDb link: 0120018
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (3,367 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Crime
- Director: Claude Chabrol
- Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, Francois Cluzet, Jean-Francois Balmer and others
- Release date: 24 Oct 1997
- Release year: 1997
- Runtime: 101 minutes
- Country: France, Switzerland
- Keywords: reference to franz kafka, reference to franz kafka's the castle, reference to peter sellers, reference to don juan, money, scam, con artist, reference to tosca, assumed identity, drunkenness
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Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
The smalltime swindlers Elizabeth "Betty" and Victor make a living by cheating naive people. After swindling a salesman of garden tools in the French Riviera, Betty travels on vacation alone and schedule a next scheme in ten days in a congress for dentists in Sils Maria. However Betty arrives at the hotel with Maurice Biagini, who is the treasurer of a company that is traveling cuffed to a wallet with five-million francs. She tells Victor that she has the intentions of stealing his money and Victor plots a scheme using the naivety of Maurice. But soon the con artists have to face the dangerous associates of Maurice.
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