Le deuxième souffle (translated into English as Second Wind or Second Breath)[3] is a 1966 French crime-thriller film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, and Christine Fabréga.

Incarcerated gangster Gustave "Gu" Minda, who is widely respected in the French underworld for never giving the police any information about his accomplices, escapes from prison and heads for Paris to see his sister Manouche and her faithful bodyguard Alban.

Not wanting to live on Manouche's money, Gu eagerly agrees to take the place of Jeannot Franchi, who was killed in the attack on Jacques, in an upcoming heist being organized by Paul.

On a remote mountain road overlooking the sea, Antoine and Gu shoot and kill the two motorcycle police officers escorting the shipment, and the team ties up the other guards and gets away with the loot.

Gu is racked with guilt for having implicated Paul, and when he is shown a newspaper article that says he informed, he punches his hands through a window and bashes his head against a file cabinet, which gets him sent to the hospital.