The Samurai

the Samurai is a film French, carried out by Jean-Pierre Melville, left on the screens in 1967.

Synopsis

The film is the history of Jef Costello, an extremely solitary professional killer, and of its quiet fight to survive.

Jef Costello is charged to kill the owner of a box of jazz, which it does. In spite of an alibi designed very well, it is suspecté by the police chief in charge of the investigation; the pianist of the nightclub confirms his alibi however. Jef Costello does not include/understand why it acts thus. After having assassinated its silent partner, wanting to finish some with the life and knowing that it is supervised by the police force, it turns over in the nightclub, leaves its revolver and points it on the pianist: the warned police force of her arrival the slaughtering on the spot. One then realizes that its revolver was deliberately noncharged.

Data sheet

Title: the Samurai
Realization: Jean-Pierre Melville
Scenario: Jean-Pierre Melville and Georges Pellegrin according to the novel of Joan McLeod The Ronin
Original music: François of Roubaix
Producing: Raymond Borderie and Eugene Lépicier
Photography: Henri Decaë
Assembly: Monique Bonnot and Yolande Maurette
Creation of the decorations: François de Lamothe
Decorator of plate: François de Lamothe
Directing of production: Georges Casati
Directing of proprietée: Andre Boumedil and Angelo Rizzi
Set to draw up: Robert Christidès
Assistants decorator: Théobald Meurisse and Philippe Turlure
Sound: Alex Pront
Engineer of sound: Rene Longuet
Assistant sound: Pierre Davoust
Editor of sound: Robert Pouret
Directing of production: Jean Pieuchot
Editors assisting: Genevieve Adam, Madeleine Bagiau, Madeleine Guerin and Genevieve Letellier
Furrier: Robert Beaulieu
Operator camera studio: Jean Charvein
Operator camera hirings: Henri Decaë
1st assistant camera: François Lauliac
2nd assistant camera: Horned Jean-Paul
Script: Betty Elvira
Lasted: 105 minutes (1h45)
Country: France/Italy
Language: French
Color: Eastmancolor
Technology of the sound: Mono
Production companies: CICC, Fida Cinematografica, Filmel and TC Productions
Distributive firms: International Artists (1972) (the United States), Luna Vídeo (Brazil) (video), New Yorker Films (video), Prodis, The Criterion Collection (2005) (the United States) (DVD)
Coming out date: October 25th 1967 (France)

Distribution

Alain Delon: Jef Costello
François Périer: The police chief
Nathalie Delon: Jane Lagrange, the mistress of Costello
Cathy Rose tree: Valerie, the pianist (like Caty Rose tree)
Jacques Leroy: Gunner
Michel Boisrond: Wiener
Robert Favart: Barkeeper
Jean-Pierre Posier: Olivier Rey
Catherine Jourdan: Receptionist
Roger Fradet: 1st inspector
Carlo Nell: 2nd inspector
Robert Rondo: 3rd inspector
Andre Salgues: Mechanic
Andre Thorent: Police officer/man at the wheel of the taxi
Jacques Deschamps: Police officer
Georges Casati: Damolini
Jacques Léonard: Garcia (like Léonard Jack)
Pierre Vaudier: Police officer
Maurice Magalon: Police officer
Gaston Miller: Manager of the hotel
Jean Gold: 1st customer in the nightclub
Georges Billy: 2nd customer in the nightclub
Ari Aricardi: Player of Poker
Guy Bonnafoux: Player of Poker (like Bonnafoux)
Humberto Catalano: Police inspector (like Catalano)
Carl Lechner: Double of Jef
Maria Maneva: Young girl with the chewing-gum

Anecdotes

One can quote the homage paid to the Samurai and the source of inspiration for Jim Jarmusch in his film of 1999, Ghost Dog . The structure and the main themes of film are taken again there, either directly or in the form of supported wink.
It is during the turning of the Samurai , that the Studios Jenner, if expensive with the eyes of Melville, were set fire to, on June 29th, 1967.

Places of turnings

Scenes representing Paris: in Paris.
the scene where Jef Costello comes to touch its money for the murder after being slackened 36 Quai des Orfèvres passes on a metal footbridge, overhanging the railways, which one reaches by the station of the Masséna Boulevard, which belongs to the small belt of Paris. This station was reconverted in station the RER and is unused today: Old station the RER " Massena" boulevard; , Paris - 13th.

Dates of turning

June 19th with the August 5th 1967

External bonds

Card of film on Internet Movie Database
the Studios Jenner

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