Codine
Synopsis
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (5)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Como Films
- Co-production : Les Films Tamara
- Foreign production companies : Romfilm, Studioul Cinematografic Bucuresti
- French distribution : Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC)
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Samy Halfon
- Adaptation : Henri Colpi, Yves Jamiaque
- Dialogue Writer : Yves Jamiaque
- Director of Photography : Marcel Weiss
- Music Composers : Theodor Grigoriu, Henri Colpi
- Editors : Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Claude Marchetti
- Author of original work : Panait Istrati
- Assistant Operator : Jean-Pierre Lazar
- Camera Operator : Adolphe Charlet
- Foley artist : Daniel Couteau
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Romania
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1963
News & awards
Selections (1)
Awards (1)
Cannes International Film Festival
France, 1963
Best Screenplay Award
Prize from the Commission Supérieure Technique
