PUNK! Il était une fois Gilles Bertin

PUNK! Il était une fois Gilles Bertin

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 12, 2021

Runtime

0h 58m

Genres

Documentary, Music

User Score

60%

Original Title

PUNK! Il était une fois Gilles Bertin

Production Companies

Magnéto Presse, France Télévisions, France 2

Director

Eugénie Grandval

Description

Gilles Bertin founded in 1980 the punk band "Camera Silens" whose name is inspired by the isolation cells in which members of the Red Army Fraction were locked up. Years of music, heroin squats, anarchy and theft follow... He is one of the masterminds of the legendary Brinks robbery. It was April 26, 1988. Disguised as gendarmes, an unlikely team of robbers – punks, anarchists and drug addicts – rob the coffers of the Brinks. Balance sheet: 11.7 million francs (1.8 million euros) and not a shot. Most of the criminals were arrested and convicted, except Gilles Bertin who managed to escape. His escape will last nearly thirty years. No one imagines then that he has rebuilt his life a few hundred kilometers away, in a popular suburb of Barcelona.