The red Circle

the red Circle is a Franco-Italian film carried out by Jean-Pierre Melville, left in 1970.

Synopsis

After five years of imprisonment in a penal establishment of Marseilles, Corey is about to be released when, its departure day before, the chief warden of the prison proposes one to him business . As of its exit, Corey hastens to find one of its old comparses, one named Rico, to which it conceals an important amount of money. It buys at once superb a Plymouth Fury III 1966 noticed in the window of an automobile retailer with whom it undertakes to regain his residence of the 16th district of Paris.

During this time, a shady of the name of Vogel is escorted by the Mattei police chief from Marseilles to Paris by the night train. Escaping the monitoring from the police chief, Vogel escapes while jumping by the window from the train. He manages to escape beaten launched gendarmes to his continuation and, in front of a restaurant of edge of road (Relairoute), he slips into the trunk of a car which is that of Corey.

He binds friendship with Corey and the two men decide to burglarize a jewelry Place Vendôme…

Data sheet

Title: the red Circle
Realization: Jean-Pierre Melville
Scenario: Jean-Pierre Melville
Producing: Robert Dorfmann and Jacques Dorfmann
Music: Eric Demarsan
Director of the photography: Henri Decaë
Camera: Charles-Henry Montel
Assembly: Marie-Sophie Dubus and Jean-Pierre Melville
Sound: Jean Nény
His direct: Jacques Carrère
Costumes: Colette Baudot
Creation of the decorations: Théobald Meurisse
Decorator of plate: Pierre Cartwright
Additional: Rene Albouze
Assisting of the decorator of plate: Marc Desages
Assistants assembly: Elisabeth Sarradin, Christine Grenet, Claudine Kaufmann
Assistants sound: Guy Chichignoud, Victor Revelli
Directing of production: Alain Quefféléan
First assistant realizer: Bernard Stora
Assistants realizer: Bernard Girardot, Michel Léonard and Pierre Tatischeff
Script: Jacqueline Parey-Decaë
Assistants camera: François Lauliac and Horned Jean-Paul
Executive producer: Gerard Crosnier
Rene Llonguet: Jewels
Production: The Films Corona (Paris), Selenia (Rome)
Country of origin: France, Italy
Format: Eastman Color- 1,66:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Police officer
Lasted: 140 minutes
Coming out date: October 20th 1970 (France)

Distribution

Alain Delon: Corey
Bourvil : the police chief Mattei
Gian Maria Will: Vogel
Yves Montand: Jansen
Paul Crauchet: the receiver
François Périer: Santi
Paul Amiot: the chief of the police force
Pierre Collet: the prison warder
Andre Ekyan: Rico
Jean-Pierre Posier: the assistant of Mattei
Yves Arcanel: the examining magistrate
Rene Berthier: the director of the P.J
Jean-Marc Boris: the son Santi
Jean Champion: the gate-keeper
Yvan Quantifies: a police officer
Anna Douking: the former friend of Corey (like Anna Douking)
Robert Favart: the salesman at Mauboussin
Roger Fradet: a police officer
Edouard Francomme: the guard of billiards (like Edouard Francomme)
Jean Franval: the tenant of hotel
Jacques Galland: the conductor
Jean-Pierre Janic: Paul, the man of Rico
Pierre Lecomte: the assistant of the I.G.S.
Jacques Léonard: a police officer
Jacques Leroy: a police officer
Jean Pignol: the employee of the clerk's office
Robert Rondo: a police officer
Guy Henry: a guard
Stéphanie Fugain: the saleswoman of cigarettes

Places of turning

Marseilles
On A7 in the north of Marseilles: Corey arranges its two revolvers in the trunk of its American car (27e minute of film)
Saint-Wolf-of-Varennes with the monument devoted to Nicéphore Niépce
Meursault (level crossing on D23): Vogel jumps of the train and flees through wood
Relairoute of Beautiful-Air (Coast-with Or) on the RN6 vis-a-vis a service station Esso (the service station has since missing and this Restoroute, closed in 1972, was shaven.)
Paris, 25 rue Danielle Casanova: Corey and Vogel park their Plymouth in front of the cremery Vendôme before the break-in of the Mauboussin jewelry.
Paris, Mauboussin Jewelry, 20 Place Vendôme
Paris, Offices of the Judicial police, Quay of the Goldsmiths
Paris, apartment, 19 avenue Paul Doumer (the front carrying the sign of Pierre Baton shelters a Franprix store today)
Monthyon, park of the castle of Jean-Claude Brialy

Places of turnings today

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