Le Sucre


Le Sucre is a 1978 French crime comedy film directed by Jacques Rouffio.

Plot

The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974. Raoul is a hot-shot commodities broker who sweet-talks Adrien, a quiet and unassuming man, into taking his wife's inheritance and using it to speculate on the recent rise in sugar prices. Raoul is able to pry more money away from Adrien when he shows him how much his first, more conservative speculations have made. But the con-man is taken in by his own con, for Raoul has also entered the sugar market, using every bit of money he can scrape together. When the market turns around, they both land in the soup together.

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