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Fabio Testi, Maurice Garrel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont ... see more see more... , Lou Castel , Didier Kaminka , André Falcon , Viviane Romance , Francois Perrot , Lyle Joyce , Katia Romanoff , Henri Attal

Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged ... read more read more...by a sadistic police official and his minions. Thanks to the official's eagerness to pull the trigger, everyone winds up dead, including the ambassador. The Nada Gang was based on a novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 8 min.

Directed by: Claude Chabrol

Release Date: November 6, 1974

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DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003

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  • SirPant
    April 18, 2011
    SirPant
    First and foremost, Nada is a very knowing black comedy, subtle and with tongue firmly in cheek at times. The fact that their called the 'Nada' gang kind of gives it away that this is parody rather than serious but it does have all the trimmings of a really good thriller/heist mo... read morevie so often you forget. Pointing out the faults of both sides, Nada highlights the idiocy of conflict and the pointlessness of terrorism but never condemns the passion or the need for rebellion. It certainly one of my favourite Chabrol films.
  • harrycaul
    May 17, 2008
    harrycaul
    When a leftist terrorist organisation kidnaps the U.S. Ambassador to France, the French police employ their own, state-sanctioned form of terrorism to quell popular support for the anarchists. "Nada" is too complex a film to analyse succinctly here, but it sometimes felt like I w... read moreas watching a Costa-Gavras political thriller, as directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Certainly, Maurice Garrel, as a disillusioned revolutionary, masterminding the abduction out of loyalty to a still fanatical friend (Fabio Testi), has a Melvillian world-weariness/fatalism about him. The interesting relationship between Testi and Michel Duchaussoy, respectively the gang's leader and its former spokesman, expelled for ideological differences but loyally reticent under police torture, also smacks of Melville. However, the rich vein of black comedy running through the movie is unmistakably Claude Chabrol's. Detractors, who would have you believe that this director is merely a Hitchcock copyist, would do well to witness his brilliant handling of this film's two major set-pieces: the kidnapping scene and the police's retaliatory farmhouse siege. His matter-of-fact use of violence, particularly in the latter scene, is absolutely chilling. Of the superb cast, Maurice Garrel and Michel Aumont, who plays the canny but brutal policeman in charge of the case, are especially fine. A film ripe for rediscovery in these troubled times. I loved it!
  • gator681
    July 23, 2010
    gator681
    "Nada" starts with D'Arey(Lou Castel) trying to recruit Epaulard(Maurice Garrel), a veteran of revolutions, into a scheme to kidnap the American ambassador(Lyle Joyce). Epaulard thinks the plan is so insane that he goes back into a wine bar, needing another drink. What D'Arey n... read moreeeds is his silence, enlisting Diaz(Fabio Testi) but the two men recognize each other as old comrades and Epaulard has a change of heart. So does Treuffais(Michel Duchaussoy), a university professor, who opts out. As secret as their plan is, somebody is still on hand to videotape them...

    A little trickier than the average Claude Chabrol film, "Nada" begins with a burst of energy before shifting gears in its second act to almost forget about the kidnappers, focusing instead on the government response. While surprisingly sympathetic towards the kidnappers, the same cannot be said for the authorities who exploit terrorism for their own agenda. The film was made in 1974 at a time when revolutionary violence and terrorism were not unusual(the American ambassador was kidnapped in Brazil in 1969) but not when sneakers were. However, it does seem odd that a revolutionary cell would just ask for money. Surely, there are political demands they could have made like releasing prisoners, ending military activity or having Roger Moore replaced as James Bond.

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Dennis Schwartz
May 16, 2004
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A chilling political thriller. Full Review

Nora Sayre
May 9, 2005
Nora Sayre, New York Times

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Emanuel Levy
July 4, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Time Out

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May 24, 2003
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