The first of a two-part fact-based French crime thriller charting the career of notorious gangster Jacques Mesrine. Drawn into a life of crime after the Franco-Algerian War, he embarks on a campaign of bank heists and prison breaks through the 1960s - culminating in his leading an escape from a Canadian jail. Starring Vincent Cassel, Cecile De France and Gerard Depardieu. In French, English, Arabic and Spanish.

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.