Claude Sautet’s landmark 1960 crime drama Classe tous risques arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu‑ray special edition from The Criterion Collection, featuring a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The film follows fugitive gangland chief Abel Davos as he sneaks back to Paris with his family after years in exile and confronts betrayal, shifting loyalties, and the underworld that once ruled him.
Film Info
Country: France, Italy
Year: 1960
Runtime: 108 minutes
Black and White | 1.66:1 | French
Spine: #434
Special Features
4K UHD + Blu‑ray special edition features:
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu‑ray with the film and special features
- Excerpts from Claude Sautet, ou La magie invisible, a 2003 documentary on the director
- Interview with Classe tous risques novelist and co‑screenwriter José Giovanni
- Archival interview footage featuring actor Lino Ventura discussing his career
- Trailers
- Plus: essays by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and N. T. Binh, a reprinted interview with Sautet, and a 1962 tribute by Jean‑Pierre Melville
- Cover by Eric Skillman
Release Date
The Criterion edition of Classe tous risques releases on March 17, 2026 and can be pre‑ordered here.
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