Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

"Viburnum is red", but with French reflections. About the rehabilitation of criminals, without fierce savagery, slowly and very deeply, with a wonderful breadth of development of the problem, with amazing symphonic overtones, so exquisitely only among the French. The stars of world cinema Depardieu, Michel Bouquet, Bourville - were honored to come to the supporting role or even an episodic one.
Melville (aka Grumbach) - took on the role of nothing less than a Buddha, inventing a saying for the preface, and attributing it to an ancient treatise. This describes the scale in which the director sees himself.
The rhetoric, undoubtedly anti-traditional, leftist, in this case, gave positive results. The society abolished guillotining, which had been used for 200 years. Because of one movie. How did it happen?
Be sure to take a look if you haven't seen it

The same as the Samurai. The moral of the film is not clear, but it is beautifully shot

Let's be honest. Figure it out, slow, slow, and, alas, uninteresting. I'll shovel the classics of cinema, specifically this is an atavism