Plot
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles as he lived, at a thousand miles an hour. He had only one passion: to entertain the public with his smile, his naturalness, his energy, his stunts. But contrary to appearances, his destiny was full of pitfalls. This film lifts the veil on a founding childhood that allowed him to overcome many obstacles throughout his life thanks to the tutelary figures of his father and mother. Told from the inside with the help of his autobiography, interviews and unpublished archives, this epic story traces the career of this turbulent young actor who launched the New Wave in Breathless before becoming the popular Bebel, an indestructible and provocative vigilante. From film to film, this documentary paints an intimate portrait of a man who built himself up to reach the top: his triumphs but also his trials, his doubts, his secrets, his angers, his clowning, his disappointments or his personal dramas.
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Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo
Self
Richard Anconina
Ursula Andress
Laura Antonelli
Arletty
Michel Audiard
Brigitte Bardot
Michel Beaune
Xavier Beauvois
Guy Bedos
Jacqueline Bisset
Bourvil
Claude Brasseur
Philippe de Broca
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Jean-Roger Caussimon
Peter Brook
Vittorio Caprioli
Alain Delon
Catherine Deneuve
Jacques Deray
Vittorio De Sica
Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Fabian
Farrah Fawcett
Jean Gabin
Vanessa Paradis
Jeanne Moreau
Sophia Loren
Marie-France Pisier
Alice Pol
Jean Seberg
Monica Vitti
Raquel Welch
Jacques Villeret
Henri Verneuil
Charles Vanel
Michel Simon
Dominique Sanda
Jean-Paul Rouve
Jean Rochefort
Emmanuelle Riva
Jean-Louis Richard
Alain Resnais
François Périer
Gérard Oury
Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Melville
Aldo Maccione
Marie Laforêt
Claude Lelouch
Marlène Jobert
Gérard Jugnot
Louis Jouvet
Annie Girardot
Robert Hossein
Daniel Gélin
Guillaume Gallienne
