Stavisky...
Synopsis
Irrestisible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
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Actors (37)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producers : Simar Films, Les Films Ariane
- Foreign production company : Euro International Film (EIA)
- Associate producer : Cerito Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL, Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Compagnie Commerciale Française Cinématographique (CCFC)
Full credits (11)
- Assistant directors : Jean Léon, Florence Malraux
- Producers : Georges Dancigers, Alexandre Mnouchkine
- Sound recordists : Bernard Bats, Jean-Pierre Ruh
- Screenwriter : Jorge Semprún
- Co-producer : Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Director of Photography : Sacha Vierny
- Production Manager : Alain Belmondo
- Editor : Albert Jurgenson
- Music Composer : Stephen Sondheim
- Production Designer : Jacques Saulnier
- Costume designer : Jacqueline Moreau
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Biopic, Adventure, Crime/thriller
- Themes : Fraud, News story, Justice
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France)
- Production year : 1973
- French release : 15/05/1974
- Runtime : 1 h 55 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 41698
- Visa issue date : 03/05/1974
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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About
The film began as a commission by Jean-Paul Belmondo to the screenwriter Jorge Semprún to develop a scenario about Stavisky. Resnais, who had previously worked with Semprún on La Guerre est finie, expressed his interest in the project (after a gap of six years since his previous film); he recalled seeing as a child the waxwork figure of Stavisky in the Musée Grevin, and immediately saw the potential of Belmondo to portray him as a mysterious, charming and elegant fraudster.
Semprún described the film as "a fable upon the life of bourgeois society in its corruption, on the collaboration of money and power, of the police and crime, a fable in which Alexander's craziness, his cynicism, act as catalysts".
Resnais said: "What attracted me to the character of Alexandre was his connection to the theatre, to show-business in general. Stavisky seemed to me like an incredible actor, the hero of a serial novel. He had the gift of bringing reality to his fantasies by means of regal gestures." (Among many theatrical references, the film features a scene in the theatre in which Alexandre rehearses a scene from Giraudoux's Intermezzo, and another in which he attends a performance of Coriolanus. His office is adorned with theatrical posters.)
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