LE SAMOURAÏ
synopsis
In Paris, Jef Costello is a lonely hit man who works under contract. He is hired to kill the owner of a club and becomes the prime suspect of the murder. However, his perfect alibi drops the accusation against him. His girlfriend Jane, her client and citizen above any suspicion Wiener and Valerie, the pianist of the club and main witness of the crime, provide the necessary evidence of his innocence supporting his alibi. Free, he is betrayed and chased by the gangsters sent by the one who hired him and also by the police, not convinced of his innocence. Jef seeks out who has hired him to revenge.
international title: | Le Samouraï |
original title: | Le samouraï |
country: | France, Italy |
year: | 1967 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jean-Pierre Melville |
film run: | 105' |
release date: | FR 25/10/1967, NL 21/12/1967, SE 08/02/1968, IT 29/02/1968, DK 18/04/1968, DE 13/06/1968, ES 25/10/1968, PT 03/11/1968, TR 06/01/1969, FI 14/02/1969, UK 11/1969, IE 26/11/1971, DD 26/01/1983, RU 23/10/1994, GR 09/08/2018 |
screenplay: | Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin |
cast: | Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon |
cinematography by: | Henri Decaë |
film editing: | Monique Bonnot, Yolande Maurette |
art director: | François de Lamothe |
producer: | Raymond Borderie, Eugène Lépicier |