The Bait (French: L'Appat) is a 1995 French crime drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from Morgan Sportes's novel based on a real Paris crime of the 1980s. It stars Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk and Bruno Putzulu as a young woman and two accomplices who lure wealthy men back to her apartment so the men can be robbed. The film won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1995. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Bait (French: L'Appat) is a 1995 French crime drama directed by Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from Morgan Sportes's novel based on a real Paris crime of the 1980s. It stars Marie Gillain, Olivier Sitruk and Bruno Putzulu as a young woman and two accomplices who lure wealthy men back to her apartment so the men can be robbed.
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The film won the Golden Bear Award at the 45th Berlin International Film Festival
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8 March 1995
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The Bait (French: L'Appât), also known as Fresh Bait, is a 1995 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier about two boys and a girl who commit a murder, with the girl acting as the "bait". The film is based on the 1990 book of the same name by Morgan Sportès, which is in turn based on the "Valérie Subra affair", a true event that happened in 1984.
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