"Boxing brought me this surly side in life, that is to say not to let yourself be taken down when things are going badly", explained Jean-Paul Belmondo, not yet 30 years old, during a dedicated report to his passion for this combat sport.
Shot in February 1961 at the Avia Club at Porte Saint-Martin, in eastern Paris, these sequences show the young actor exchanging blows with other boxers.
The death of Jean-Paul Belmondo was announced on Monday by his lawyer.
He was 88 years old.
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“In the ring, boxing gives that kind of anger. And in life too, it's about hanging on when things go badly, and continuing to struggle. "During his long career in cinema, Belmondo will give pride of place to certain very" physical "roles with many unlined stunts and many punches, as in" Borsalino "," The Magnificent "," Flic ou voyou "," The Professional ”or even“ L'As des as ”. In 2018, the actor specified in the columns of the Parisian that he had fifteen fights on his list.