Le Marginal

Le Marginal is a 1983 French crime and action film directed by Jacques Deray, with Jean-Paul Belmondo in the lead. It follows a police commissioner who is prepared to risk everything to catch a drug trafficker. The film was a big popular success in France from the moment it opened, selling 4,956,822 tickets, close to five million admissions.

Belmondo is joined in the cast by Henry Silva, Tchéky Karyo, Henri Attal, Jean-Claude Dreyfus and Pierre Vernier, among others. The screenplay was prepared by Deray together with Jean Vautrin, while the dialogue was written by Michel Audiard. The score is by Ennio Morricone.

Produced by StudioCanal, the film runs about 100 minutes. Outside France it is known under other titles, including Der Außenseiter in German, O Marginal in Brazil and Вне закона in Russian.