Chicken Soup

The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...

Cast

Gérard Blain

as Claudio

Françoise Spira

as Maria

Claude Brasseur

as Girel

Guy Bedos

as Hardouin

Jean Servais

as Commissioner Beronnet

Paul Mercey

as Rimbert

Anne-Marie Coffinet

as Corinne

Maurice Biraud

as Inspector Morel

Roger Dutoit

as Cazenave

Hélène Dieudonné

as Old Lady

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