The Swindle

The Swindle
  • 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
Plot:
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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