Director
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Stephen Sondheim
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Edition 1998
120'
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1974
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Crime, Drama, Biography
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Format:
35mm
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Dialogue:
French, English
This film - with a score by Stephen Sondheim - is Resnais's most approachable film. Jean-Paul Belmondo stars in this romantic story recreating a notorious French scandal from the 1930s. Serge Alexandre, born Sacha Stavisky, a Russian Jew, was a financier and swindler who had powerful allies and connections amongst French politicians and police. Stavisky hided his origins and his past, he lived as if he had no memories. When a major fraud is unmasked, his allies deserted him and Stavisky died in mysterious circumstances. Basing his film on the real-life Stavisky who provoked a scandal which almost toppled the French government in 1934, Resnais has combined fact and fiction into what one critic aptly described as "a tone poem to the 1930s". (Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide)
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Credits
Directors
Alain Resnais
Music (original)
Stephen Sondheim
Cast
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Scenario
Jorge Semprún
Director of Photography
Sacha Vierny
Editors
Albert Jurgenson
Producers
Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Dialogue
French, English
Countries of production
Italy, France
Year
1974
Filmography
Alain Resnais
L'aventure de Guy (short, 1936), Schéma d'une identification (short, 1946), Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire (1946), Visite à Oscar Dominguez (short, 1947), Visite à Lucien Coutaud (short, 1947), Visite à Hans Hartung (short, 1947), Visite à Félix Labisse (short, 1947), Visite à César Doméla (short, 1947), Portrait d'Henri Goetz (short, 1947), Le last Nestlé (short, 1947), L'alcool tue (short, 1947), Journée naturelle (short, 1947), Van Gogh (short, 1948), Malfray (short, 1948), Les Jardins de Paris (short, 1948), Châteaux de France (short, 1948), Gaugain (short, 1949), Pictura (1951), Guernica (1951), Statues also Die (short, 1953), Night and Fog (short, 1956), All the Memory in the World (short, 1956), Le mystère de l'atelier quince (short, 1957), The Song of Styrene (short, 1958), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), Muriel (1963), The War Is Over (1966), Far from Vietnam (1967), I Love You, I Love You (1968), Cinétracts (1968), The Year 01 (1973), Stavisky (1974), Providence (1977), My American Uncle (1980), Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983), Love Unto Death (1984), Mélo (1986), I Want to Go Home (1989), Lest We Forget (1991), No Smoking (1993), Same Old Song (1997), Not on the Lips (2003), Private Fears in Public Places (2006), Wild Grass (2009), You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012), Life of Riley (2014)
Technical Specs
Format
35mm