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De sa jeunesse passée dans la misère d’un camp de gitans, Edmond Vidal, dit Momon, a retenu le sens de la famille, une loyauté sans faille, et la fierté de ses origines. Il a surtout conservé l’amitié de Serge Suttel. L’ami d’enfance avec qui il a découvert la prison à cause d’un stupide vol de cerises. Avec lui, inexorablement il a plongé dans le Grand Banditisme, et connu l’apogée du Gang des Lyonnais, l’équipe qu’ils ont formée ensemble et qui a fait d’eux les plus célèbres braqueurs du début des années soixante-dix. Leur irrésistible ascension prend fin en 1974, lors d’une arrestation spectaculaire. Aujourd’hui à l’approche de la soixantaine, Momon tente d’oublier cette période de sa vie. Sa rédemption, il l’a trouvée en se retirant des « affaires ». En prenant soin de Janou, son épouse, qui a tant souffert à l’époque et de ses enfants et petits-enfants, tous respectueux, devant cet homme aux valeurs simples et universelles, lucide et pétri d’humanité. A l’inverse de Serge Suttel, qui malgré le temps n’a rien renié de son itinéraire.
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A Gang Story (2011)
102 min
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.