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 |