Stavisky...
feature film, 1974.
DIRECTED BY: Alain Resnais
CAST:
Jean-Paul Belmondo (Serge Alexandre Stavisky),
François Périer (Albert Borelli),
Anny Duperey (Arlette),
Michael Lonsdale (doktor Mézy),
Roberto Bisacco (Juan Montalvo de Montalbon)
SCRIPT:
Jorge Semprún
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Sacha Vierny
Synopsis:
Based on actual events and scandals involving Serge Alexandre Stavisky, the film depicts the final months in the life of this great con artist in the early 1930s. To succeed in numerous financial frauds whose victims were all wealthy and high-ranking people, he used charm, knowledge and talent in equal measure, but also the beauty of his glamorous wife Arlette. However, eventually he attracted the attention of investigators and his con jobs come to an end...
35 mm, color, 120 min