Checkerboard
A Feature film of
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Production year1959
French release06/05/1959
Runtime1 h 38 min
Synopsis
In the imaginary town of Cicada, a segregated Midwestern town, a Caucasian ex-paratrooper begins a relationship with an African-American woman, provoking unsettling reactions from the locals...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (25)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Zodiaque Productions, Lodice Films
- Foreign production company : Globe Films
- French distribution : Discifilm
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Adolphe Osso, Claude Bernard-Aubert, Claude Accursi
- Screenwriters : Claude Bernard-Aubert, Claude Accursi
- Dialogue Writer : Claude Accursi
- Director of Photography : Jean Isnard
- Music Composer : André Hodeir
- Assistant directors : Ado Kyrou, Jacques Guymont
- Editor : Gabriel Rongier
- Sound Recordist : André Louis
- Sound Assistant : Jean Bareille
- Assistant Operator : Jean Collomb
- Camera Operator : Robert Schneider
- Production Manager : Emile Darbel
- Assistant editor : Andrée Davanture
- Continuity supervisor : Geneviève Cortier
- Production Designer : Jean-Paul Coutan-Laboureur
- Still Photographer : Léo Mirkine
- Location Manager : Louis Manella
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Racial discrimination
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Italy
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