38 - ROMY SCHNEIDER AND BERNARD FRESSON

ROMY SCHNEIDER AND BERNARD FRESSON During the filming of Claude Sautet’s movie “Max and the Scrap Dealers,” 1971. Photo, vintage color print, with remnants of a label and annotations on the back. 17.4 x 23.3 cm. Note: In *Max and the Scrap Dealers*, a 1971 crime film directed by Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider plays Lily, a prostitute of German origin and the girlfriend of Abel, a petty criminal portrayed by Bernard Fresson. Their relationship becomes the tool in a trap devised by Max, an obsessive police officer played by Michel Piccoli: posing as a banker to Lily, he indirectly pushes Abel and his gang to commit a robbery so he can catch them in the act. Adapted from the novel by Claude Néron, this dark drama marks Romy Schneider’s reunion with Claude Sautet and Michel Piccoli following *Les Choses de la vie*.