Henri Colpi
Codine
Edition 1985
98'
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1963
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Crime, Drama
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Dialogue:
French, Romanian
Director:
Henri Colpi
Composer:
Henri Colpi, Theodor Grigoriu
With:
Alexandru Virgil Platon, Razvan Petrescu, Françoise Brion
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Braila. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
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Director
Henri Colpi
Composer
Henri Colpi, Theodor Grigoriu
With
Alexandru Virgil Platon, Razvan Petrescu, Françoise Brion
Scenario
Panait Istrati, Yves Jamiaque, Dumitru Carabat
Director of Photography
Stefan Horvath, Marcel Weiss
Editor
Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi
Producer
Samy Halfon
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Dialogue
French, Romanian
Countries of production
Romania, France
Screenplay based on
"Les Récits d'Adrien Zograffi" (Panait Istrati)
Year
1963