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Title :
Le trou
Authors :
José Giovanni
Publisher :
Gallimard
Year :
1998
ISBN :
2070498069
Language :
French
Description :
Manu Borelli is in the high security section of the Paris jail of La Santé with four other prisonners.
Decided to escape, they dig a hole in the flour of their cell and begin to explore all the possible exits in the underground of the big jail. But at the day before they want to escape one of them is told, that his case is no longer prosecuted and he'll be free in a few days.
This autobiographic story of this escape bid in 1947 is also a great film by jacques Becker in 1960.
José Giovanni died on april 24th 2004.
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