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Le Cercle rouge
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1970 film by Jean-Pierre Melville
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Le Cercle Rouge is a 1970 French-Italian heist film directed and written by Jean-Pierre Melville. The cast includes Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand, and Bourvil. Robert Dorfmann produced the movie, which was composed by Éric Demarsan. Henri Decaë served as the director of photography. The narrative is set in Paris and Marseille during 1970.
The film runs for 140 minutes and was released on October 19 or 20, 1970. It is distributed via video on demand. Genres include crime, drama, neo-noir, and thriller. Key themes involve perfect crime, theft, and corruption. Review scores include 95%, 8.3/10, 92/100, and 7.9/10. The tagline reads "No place to hide . . . nowhere to run . . ."
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7.6When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Cast
- Alain Delon as Corey
- Bourvil as Commissioner François Mattei
- Gian Maria Volonté as Vogel
- Yves Montand as Jansen
- François Périer as Santi
- Paul Crauchet as The Receiver
Themes
- prison
- corruption
- paris, france
- escape
- police
- pimp
- ex-cop
- heist
- thief
- gang
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Written by
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Produced by
- Robert Dorfmann
- Starring
- Alain Delon , Bourvil , Yves Montand , Gian Maria Volonté
- Cinematography
- Henri Decaë
- Edited by
- Marie-Sophie Dubus
- Music by
- Éric Demarsan
- Production companies
- Les Films Corona Comacico Euro International Films Fono Roma Selenia Cinematografica
- Distributed by
- Les Films Corona (France), Variety Distribution (Italy)
- Release dates
- 20 October 1970 ( 1970-10-20 ) (France) 18 December 1970 ( 1970-12-18 ) (Italy)
- Running time
- 140 minutes
- Countries
- France, Italy
- Language
- French
- Box office
- 4,525,820 admissions (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Original language
- French
- Main subject
- collaboration
- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Screenwriter
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Cast member
- Mireille Darc
- Composer
- Éric Demarsan
- Producer
- Robert Dorfmann
- Cinematographer
- Henri Decaë
- Narrative location
- Marseille
- Filming location
- Paris
- Duration
- 140
- FilmAffinity ID
- 755726
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1970-10-20
- Commons category
- Le Cercle rouge
- title
- Le Cercle rouge
- set in period
- 1970
- review score
- 7.9/10
- different from
- The Red Circle
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Encyclopedic overview
Le Cercle Rouge ( French pronunciation: [lə sɛʁkl ʁuʒ]; "The Red Circle") is a 1970 French crime film written and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It stars Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté, François Périer and Yves Montand. The film is known for its climactic heist sequence which is about half an hour in length and has almost no dialogue.
The film's title refers to an epigraph which Melville made up, just as he did in Le Samouraï.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Le Cercle rouge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.