Jean-Pierre Melville Collection - 6-DVD Box Set ( Bob Le Flambeur / Léon Morin, prêtre / Le doulos / L'armée des ombres / Le cercle rouge / Un flic ) ( The Honest Thief / The Forgiven Sinner / Doulos: The Finger Man / Army of Shadows / The Red Circle / Dirty Money )

Jean-Pierre Melville Collection - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Bob Le Flambeur / Léon Morin, prêtre / Le doulos / L'armée des ombres / Le cercle rouge / Un flic
Alternate Title: The Honest Thief / The Forgiven Sinner / Doulos: The Finger Man / Army of Shadows / The Red Circle / Dirty Money
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
696 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1961 - 2002 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
France ( France, Benelux )
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Neil Jordan
Jean-Pierre Melville

Written By:
Auguste Le Breton
Jean-Pierre Melville
Béatrix Beck
Pierre Lesou
Joseph Kessel

Actors:
Nutsa Kukhianidze ..... Anne
Ouassini Embarek ..... Said
Marc Lavoine ..... Remi
Nick Nolte ..... Bob Montagnet
Tchéky Karyo ..... Roger
Gérard Darmon ..... Raoul
Saïd Taghmaoui ..... Paulo
Patricia Kell ..... Yvonne
Julien Maurel ..... Philippe
Emir Kusturica ..... Vladimir
Roland Munter ..... Kozinski
Warren Zavatta ..... Petit Louis
Théo Trifard ..... Bill
Sarah Bridges ..... Philippa
Nicolas Dromard ..... Luigi
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Leon Morin
Emmanuelle Riva ..... Barny
Irène Tunc ..... Christine Sangredin
Nicole Mirel ..... Sabine Levy
Gisèle Grimm ..... Lucienne
Marco Behar ..... Edelman
Monique Bertho ..... Marion
Marc Eyraud ..... Arlette
Nina Grégoire
Monique Hennessy
Edith Loria
Micheline Schererre
Renee Liques
Simone Vannier
Lucienne Marchand
Jean-Paul Belmondo ..... Silien
Serge Reggiani ..... Maurice Faugel
Jean Desailly ..... The Superintendant Clain
René Lefèvre ..... Gilbert Varnove (as René Lefevre)
Marcel Cuvelier ..... A police inspector
Philippe March ..... Jean (as Aimé De March)
Fabienne Dali ..... Fabienne
Monique Hennessy ..... Therese
Carl Studer ..... Kern
Christian Lude ..... The Doctor
Jacques De Leon ..... Armand
Jacques Léonard ..... A police inspector (as Jack Leonard)
Paulette Breil ..... Anita
Philippe Nahon ..... Remy
Charles Bayard ..... Old Man
Lino Ventura ..... Philippe Gerbier
Paul Meurisse ..... Luc Jardie
Jean-Pierre Cassel ..... Jean François Jardie
Simone Signoret ..... Mathilde
Claude Mann ..... Claude Ullmann dit 'Le Masque'
Paul Crauchet ..... Felix Lepercq
Christian Barbier ..... Guillaume Vermersch dit 'Le Bison'
Serge Reggiani ..... The hairdresser
André Dewavrin ..... Colonel Passy
Alain Dekok ..... Legrain
Alain Mottet ..... Commander of the camp
Alain Libolt ..... Paul Dounat
Jean-Marie Robain ..... Baron de Ferte Talloire
Albert Michel ..... Gendarm
Denis Sadier ..... Gestapo's doctor
Alain Delon ..... Corey
Bourvil ..... Le Commissaire Mattei (as André Bourvil)
Gian Maria Volonté ..... Vogel (as Gian-Maria Volonte)
Yves Montand ..... Jansen
Paul Crauchet ..... Le Receleur
Paul Amiot ..... L'inspecteur général de la police
Pierre Collet ..... Le Gardien de prison
André Ekyan ..... Rico
Jean-Pierre Posier ..... L'assistant de Mattei
François Périer ..... Santi (as François Perier)
Yves Arcanel ..... Le juge d'instruction
René Berthier ..... Le directeur de la P.J.
Jean-Marc Boris ..... Le fils Santi
Jean Champion ..... Le garde-barrière
Yvan Chiffre ..... Un policier
Alain Delon ..... Commissaire Edouard Coleman
Richard Crenna ..... Simon
Catherine Deneuve ..... Cathy
Riccardo Cucciolla ..... Paul Weber
Michael Conrad ..... Louis Costa
Paul Crauchet ..... Morand
Simone Valère ..... Paul's wife
André Pousse ..... Marc Albouis
Jean Desailly ..... Distinguished gentleman who was robbed a statue
Valérie Wilson ..... Gaby
Henri Marteau ..... Police officer instructor of shooting
Catherine Rethi ..... Un policier
Louis Grandidier
Philippe Gasté
Dominique Zentar

Synopsis:

Jean-Pierre Melville (1917 - 1974) is one of the most revered French film directors of all time. Born in Paris, he was to become a member of the French Resistance in the Second World War, an experience which he drew on as a film director, creating underworlds of secrecy and deception. The reluctant godfather of the French New Wave, Melville's highly individual style was influenced by the ideas of existentialism and surrealism, but arguably his greatest debt was to the American film noirs of 1930s and '40s Hollywood, the traditions of which he wove with inimitable style into his quintessentially French films, seeing him hailed by many as the father of the French gangster movie.

This set contains six of his finest films, from his early bittersweet masterpiece, Bob Le Flambeur, to his final film, Un Flic, his wonderfully fatalistic study of loss and deception; a fitting epitaph to one of contemporary cinema's most exceptional careers.

Army of Shadows (1969): Regarded as one of the best films ever made about wartime France. Members of the French resistance fight for freedom in the face of constant danger.

Le Doulos / Doulos: The Finger Man (1962): An unforgettable story of trust, betrayal and honour. A criminal, just free from jail, goes in search of revenge.

Leon Morin Pretre/ The Forgiven Sinner (1961): Unforgettable drama set in occupied France. A beautiful but disillusioned woman becomes friends with a priest, but her feelings for him soon deepen dangerously.

Le Cercle Rouge / The Red Circle (1970): A suave jewel thief teams up with a fugitive and a reckless ex-cop to carry out an elaborate heist.

Bob Le Flambeur / The Honest Thief (1956): An early foray into the gangster genre, Melville's self-confessed 'love letter to Paris' follows the world-weary eponymous hero Bob, a down on his luck gambler embarking on his final crime.

Un Flic / Dirty Money (1972): A Parisian police commissioner and the leader of a gang of criminals, in love with the same woman, clash when a daring bank robbery takes place.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 12 December, 2009.

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