Code Name: Melville (movie)

Code Name: Melville (movie)

Sous le nom de Melville
  • User score: 6.8
  • Production country: France
  • Producer: Olivier Bohler
  • Production companies: CNC, Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté, Nocturnes Productions, Région Provence Côte d'Azur, StudioCanal, Ina
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release date: 11/15/2008
  • Run time: 76 min.

Movie description

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.

Actors

Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt

Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt

Role(s): Self

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Leo Fortel

Leo Fortel

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Pierre Grasset

Pierre Grasset

Role(s): Self

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Laurent Grousset

Laurent Grousset

Role(s): Self

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Rémy Grumbach

Rémy Grumbach

Role(s): Self

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