
76 minutes
3/27/2010
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.
Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt
as Self
Leo Fortel
as Self

Pierre Grasset
as Self
Laurent Grousset
as Self

Rémy Grumbach
as Self

Masahiro Kobayashi
as Self

André S. Labarthe
as Self

Philippe Labro
as Self
Jean-Jacques Nataf
as Self
Rui Nogueira
as Self

Volker Schlöndorff
as Self

Bertrand Tavernier
as Self

Johnnie To
as Self

François Chalais
as Self (archive footage)

Jacques Chancel
as Self (archive footage) (voice)

Alain Delon
as Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Melville
as Self (archive footage)

Paul Meurisse
as Self (archive footage)

Lino Ventura
as Self (archive footage)