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1. #001

   Beaumont is ultimately killed just before he boards the helicopter. Georges Lautner shot an alternative version in which Beaumont escapes by helicopter, but with Jean-Paul Belmondo he chose to use the other one, despite the producers' wishes.

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2. #002

   As was his custom at the time, Jean-Paul Belmondo performed his own stunts, including the car chase at the Trocadero Plaza.

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3. #003

   Jean-Paul Belmondo, who was experiencing delays during the shoot, asked his father, Paul Belmondo, to help with the permits needed to carry out the famous car chase scene at the Trocadero Plaza.

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4. #004

   Another agent with the initials JB: Joss Beaumont, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer and others.

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5. #005

   It was the fourth highest-grossing film of the year in France. It surpassed the 300,000 admissions mark in Paris, a record at the time.

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6. #006

   Michel Audiard was chosen as the project's screenwriter. However, at the time he was focused on writing The Grilling (1981), and so his first draft was not very convincing. Francis Veber was then brought in as a script doctor, something he had previously done on a Jean-Paul Belmondo film with The Outsider (1983). Audiard cared so little that he did not mind his son Jacques Audiard, the future director, receiving praise for the story while he received praise for the screenplay. According to those not listed in the credits, Jacques Audiard did nothing more than act as an intermediary between Veber and Michel Audiard.

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7. #007

   To reduce production costs, all scenes set in Africa were actually shot in the Camargue region of southern France, and the crew selected Black students from the University of Montpellier as extras.

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8. #008

   It is the third of five collaborations between director Georges Lautner and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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9. #009

   The film shares striking similarities with The Bourne Identity (2002): a secret agent disavowed by his superiors after failing to kill an African dictator is pursued through Paris by the police and secret services.

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