The Film That Started It All

Rendezvous “facts” – In 1976 French director Claude Lelouch mounted a 16mm color movie camera to the front bumper of a Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 then, departing from the west side of Paris, just after dawn, Lelouch drove across the city in less than nine minutes, finishing in front of the Sacre-Coeur cathedral in Montmartre, where his girlfriend, Gunilla Friden (Miss Sweden, 1968) ran up the cathedral steps to embrace the black-turtle-necked driver.

Then there was Getaway in Stockholm…