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Rififi
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| Du rififi chez les hommes | |
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 DVD cover for Rififi |
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| Directed by | Jules Dassin |
| Produced by | René Gaston Vuattoux |
| Written by | Auguste Le Breton (novel) Jules Dassin René Wheeler Auguste Le Breton screenplay and dialogue |
| Starring | Jean Servais Carl Möhner Robert Manuel Jules Dassin |
| Music by | Georges Auric |
| Cinematography | Philippe Agostini |
| Release date(s) |  April 13, 1955 June 5, 1956 |
| Running time | 115 min |
| Language | French |
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Rififi is a 1955 black-and-white French heist movie. Its original French title is Du rififi chez les hommes ("of brawling among men"), which was shortened for release in the English-speaking world (the word rififi means fighting or brawling).
The film was directed by Jules Dassin, creator of many American film noir classics including The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Brute Force and Night and the City. The film stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, and Dassin himself as César le Milanais (the womaniser). The film's score was composed by Georges Auric.
The drug Rifampin owes its name to Rififi; the drug is based on a compound first isolated from soil flora on a French island, and investigators watched the film on the island.[citation needed]
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- Jean Servais - Tony le Stéphanois
- Carl Möhner - Jo le Suedois
- Robert Manuel - Mario Ferrati
- Janine Darcey - Louise le Suedois
- Pierre Grasset - Louis Grutter aka Louis le Tatoué
- Robert Hossein - Remi Grutter
- Marcel Lupovici - Pierre Grutter
- Dominique Maurin - Tonio le Suedois
- Magali Noël - Viviane
- Marie Sabouret - Mado les Grands Bras
- Claude Sylvain - Ida Ferrati
- Jules Dassin - Cesar le Milanais (as Perlo Vita)
Rififi is based on a novel by Auguste le Breton; le Breton assisted in adapting it to film. However, Dassin expanded the safe-cracking job, which is negligible in the book, into a 32-minute sequence that occupies a fourth of the running time and is played entirely without dialogue or music. So meticulous is the construction and so specific the detail of this scene that the Mexican interior ministry banned the movie because there were a series of robberies mimicking it. [1]
The film today is considered a classic film noir; critic Roger Ebert lists the film in his 'Great Movies'.
François Truffaut called Rififi "the best film noir he'd ever seen" (it was based, he added, on the worst noir novel he'd ever read).[citation needed]
On its United Kingdom release Rififi was paired with the British film The Quatermass Xperiment as a double bill; this went on to be the most successful double bill release in UK cinemas in all of 1955.[2]
This movie is set to be remade in 2007, directed by Harold Becker and staring Al Pacino.[3]
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| 1940s | The Tell-Tale Heart • Nazi Agent • The Affairs of Martha • Reunion in France • Young Ideas • The Canterville Ghost • Two Smart People • A Letter for Evie • Brute Force • The Naked City • Thieves' Highway |
| 1950s | Night and the City • Rififi • Celui qui doit mourir • Legge, La |
| 1960s | Pote tin Kyriaki • Phaedra • Topkapi • 10:30 P.M. Summer • Hamilchama al hashalom • Up Tight! |
| 1970s | Promise at Dawn • The Rehearsal • Kravgi gynaikon |
| 1980s | Circle of Two |
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