La Carapate

La Carapate
Directed by	Gérard Oury
Written by	Gérard Oury Danièle Thompson
Starring	Pierre Richard Victor Lanoux
Music by	Philippe-Gérard
Distributed by	Alain Poiré
Release date	11 October 1978 (France)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$21.9 million

La Carapate is a 1978 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury.

In May 1968, Jean-Philippe Duroc, a lawyer accused of ultra-leftism, visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison. Gaulard takes the opportunity and, stealing the clothes of his lawyer, achieves to escape. The police is convinced that Duroc has contributed at the evasion and the two men are wanted by all the police stations of France.

The film was released 10 years after the May 1968 events in France.

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