[3][4] The film is about an ex-con and master escape artist turned police officer.

[5] Under the reign of Napoleon, Francois Vidocq cuts a notorious figure in the Parisian underworld - he is the only man to have escaped the country's most terrifying penal colonies.

However, some years later, he switched sides and gets hired as a detective in the French police.

[7][8][9] Production also took place in the castles of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Fontainebleau in Seine-et-Marne,[10] as well as in Pontoise Cathedral in Val-d'Oise.

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