Les Fanatiques (1957)

Les Fanatiques is a French-Italian thriller film first released in 1957, directed by Alex Joffé.  The film stars Pierre Fresnay, Michel Auclair, Pascal Alexandre, René Alone and Grégoire Aslan.  It has also been released under the title: A Bomb for a Dictator.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


When he learns that a revolution has broken out in his own country whilst he is away in France, South American dictator Ribera decides to return home in a private plane, accompanied by his wife and some security guards.  Even though all of the usual security precautions are taken, two men at the airport manage to conceal a bomb on Ribera’s plane.  One of these is the revolutionary Luis Vargas; the other is his friend, an airport manager named Diego.  While Vargas is waiting for Ribera’s departure, Diego gets a message from the revolutionary group that Ribera has changed his mind at the last minute.  Instead of his original plan, he now intends to take a flight to Italy which leaves in 45 minutes.  When Diego breaks the bad news to Vargas he is surprised that the revolutionary still intends to murder Ribera.  Vargas takes the bomb from Ribera’s plane and puts it into a suitcase that he intends taking on board the flight to Italy.  He has no thought for his own life, nor for the lives of the fifty other passengers on the same flight...
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