Code Name: Melville

Olivier Bohler
2010-03-27


6.7
76 min

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.

Cast

Name Character Team
Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt Self Unowned
Leo Fortel Self Unowned
Pierre Grasset Self Unowned
Laurent Grousset Self Unowned
Rémy Grumbach Self Unowned
Masahiro Kobayashi Self Unowned
André S. Labarthe Self Unowned
Philippe Labro Self Unowned
Jean-Jacques Nataf Self Unowned
Rui Nogueira Self Unowned
Volker Schlöndorff Self Unowned
Bertrand Tavernier Self Unowned
Johnnie To Self Unowned
François Chalais Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jacques Chancel Self (archive footage) (voice) Unowned
Alain Delon Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jean-Pierre Melville Self (archive footage) Unowned
Paul Meurisse Self (archive footage) Unowned
Lino Ventura Self (archive footage) Unowned