Alain Delon crime thriller Flic Story on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and Digital from StudioCanal in October

A duel between a merciless killer and a French supercop… Flic Story – starring French superstar Alain Delon – will make its worldwide 4K debut in October as part of StudioCanal’s Cult Classics range, with a brand new UHD SDR restoration, new and archive special features, and a 12 page booklet, with new artwork by Thomas Hodge (aka The Dude Designs). The film is also released on Blu-ray and Digital.

Flic Story follows Roger Borniche’s (Alain Delon) nine-year pursuit of Emile Buisson (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a seasoned killer who escapes from an asylum and begins a murderous rampage.

Based on the bestselling true crime book written by top French cop Roger Borniche, detailing his cat and mouse hunt for a ruthless escaped killer, Flic Story, shot in and around Paris, is directed by the brilliant Jacques Deray (Le Marginal), and stars Delon (Le Samouraï) at his charismatic best as the dogged Borniche, and Jean-Louis Trintignant (The City of Lost Children) as his murderous, and extremely dangerous quarry. The film has a sterling supporting cast including Renato Salvatori (Armageddon), Maurice Barrier (Le Gitan), André Pousse (Un Flic), Marco Perrin (Army of Shadows),and Claudine Agur (Credo), and a fantastic score by Claude Bolling (The Awakening).

With outstanding performances from the leads, this is a superb example of French crime cinema, a hugely enjoyable, authentically gritty police procedural made all the more remarkable by the fact it is based on an incredible true investigation. The film is a fine companion piece to Delon’s 1972 police film Un Flic.