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Code Name: Melville is a french film of genre Documentary directed by Olivier Bohler with Jean-Pierre Melville

Code Name: Melville (2008)

Code Name: Melville
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Code Name Melville (original French title: Sous le nom de Melville) is a feature length documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008. Its world premiere took place in November 2008 at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei (Taiwan). It has been shown on French channel CinéCinéma Classic in March–April 2010, and on Belgian channel La Deux (RTBF) in May 2010. It is the first feature documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville since he died in 1973.

Synopsis

Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, was of Alsatian Jewish descent. Having to flee Nazi-occupied France during World War II, he joined the French Resistance and took the pseudonym Melville, in tribute to American novelist Herman Melville. He subsequently retained his war name as his stage name, once the war was over. This personal experience of the war and in particular of resistance fighting impacted Melville's formative year and has an influence which can be seen in his films.

Actors

Jean-Pierre Melville

(Self)Johnnie To

(Self)Masahiro Kobayashi

(Self)Masahiro Kobayashi
Pierre Grasset

(Self)
And :
Bertrand Tavernier
Rémy Grumbach
Volker Schlöndorff
Philippe Labro
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