Hold-Up is a Franco-Canadian crime comedy from 1985, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and directed by Alexandre Arcady.
The screenplay by Arcady, Daniel Saint-Hamont and Francis Veber is based on the novel Quick Change by Jay Cronley.
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages.
The music that Grimm plays in Rome is by Nino Rota from La strada (1954), which also features a clown as a main character.
The soundtrack, composed by Serge Franklin, was released by Music Box Records and includes the complete score of Alexandre Arcady's Last Summer in Tangiers (1987).