Actor: Alain Delon

Alain Delon was among the biggest stars in French cinema for four decades and worked with Visconti, Melville and Antonioni. Le Samourai gives him a hitman whose apartment contains a caged bird and nothing else, and the performance is conducted almost entirely without expression. He also produced many of his own films and was a genuinely controversial public figure in France until his death in 2024.