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RIFIFI

by Jules Dassin

synopsis

After five years in prison, Tony le Stéphanois meets his dearest friends Jo and the Italian Mario Ferrati and they invite Tony to steal a couple of jewels from the show-window of the famous jewelry Mappin & Webb Ltd, but he declines. Tony finds his former girlfriend Mado, who became the lover of the gangster owner of the night-club L' Âge d' Or Louis Grutter, and he humiliates her, beating on her back for being unfaithful. Then he calls Jo and Mario and proposes a burglary of the safe of the jewelry. They invite the Italian specialist in safes and elegant wolf Cesar to join their team and they plot a perfect heist. They are successful in their plan, but the Don Juan Cesar makes things go wrong when he gives a valuable ring to his mistress.

international title: Rififi
original title: Du rififi chez les hommes
country: France
year: 1955
genre: fiction
directed by: Jules Dassin
film run: 118'
release date: FR 13/04/1955, BE 13/05/1955, DK 10/06/1955, UK 06/1955, DE 30/09/1955, SE 21/11/1955, IT 02/03/1957, ES 16/06/1958, FI 17/04/1959, GR 09/1993, IE 16/08/2002, CZ 05/07/2015
screenplay: Auguste Le Breton, Jules Dassin
cast: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel
cinematography by: Philippe Agostini
film editing: Roger Dwyre
art director: Alexandre Trauner
costumes designer: Rosine Delamare
producer: René Bezard, Henri Bérard, Pierre Cabaud

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