Stavisky ( L' Empire d'Alexandre ) ( Stavisky, il grande truffatore )

Stavisky (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: L' Empire d'Alexandre
Alternate Title: Stavisky, il grande truffatore
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Alain Resnais

Written By:
Jorge Semprún

Actors:
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Serge Alexandre Stavisky
François Périer ..... Albert Borelli
Anny Duperey ..... Arlette
Michael Lonsdale ..... Docteur Mézy
Roberto Bisacco ..... Juan Montalvo de Montalbon
Claude Rich ..... Inspecteur Bonny
Charles Boyer ..... Le baron Jean Raoul
Pierre Vernier ..... Me Pierre Grammont
Marcel Cuvelier ..... Inspecteur Boussaud
Van Doude ..... Inspecteur principal Gardet
Jacques Spiesser ..... Michel Grandville
Michel Beaune ..... Le journaliste maître-chanteur
Maurice Jacquemont ..... Gauthier
Silvia Badescu ..... Erna Wolfgang
Jacques Eyser ..... Véricourt

Synopsis:

This film by French director Alain Resnais (Last Year in Marienbad) is loosely based on a true story from the 1930s about financier, con-man and swindler Stavisky who was arrested in 1934 for selling phony stock but was never brought to trial. While in jail, he continued to engage in doubtful monetary transactions. As the rumors that he was being protected by high-ranking members of the government of the French Third Republic were undoubtedly true, the scandal had a profoundly unsettling effect on the French nation, already suffering from poor government handling of the Depression, and this incident nearly brought down both the government and the Republic. Stavisky's death in prison (an apparent suicide) triggered widespread unrest and rioting. In the movie, when Stavisky (Jean-Paul Belmondo) goes to jail as a young con-man, his embarrassed father commits suicide. Ruining countless lives in his stellar career as a big-money swindler, including that of his nobleman friend Raoul (Charles Boyer), Stavisky is shown to be a pawn in a still bigger swindle, one which will destroy the Left and open the way to fascism.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 16 October, 2008.

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