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Code Name: Melville (2008)

Directed by Olivier Bohler

Overview

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.

Length 76 minutes

Actors

Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt | Leo Fortel | Pierre Grasset | Laurent Grousset | Rémy Grumbach | Masahiro Kobayashi | André S. Labarthe | Philippe Labro | Jean-Jacques Nataf | Rui Nogueira | Volker Schlöndorff | Bertrand Tavernier | Johnnie To | François Chalais | Jacques Chancel | Alain Delon | Jean-Pierre Melville | Paul Meurisse | Lino Ventura