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Symphonie Pour Un Massacre

English Title:   Symphony For A Massacre
Year:1963
Country:  France
Language:French
Genre:Crime, Film-Noir
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DirectorJacques Deray
Selected CastJean Rochefort as Christian Jabeke
 Michel Auclair as Clavet
 Charles Vanel as Paoli
 Claude Dauphin as Valoti


Notes

José Giovanni wrote the screenplay and has a role as the guy who gets killed first.
English title as per subtitles on the screen . IMDB list this as The Corrupt, though that might only be the American title.

On DVD & Blu-ray World

Multi-Format

Symphonie Pour Un Massacre - Pathé - France (2018)


Comments and Reviews
 
albert
27th Mar 2019
 So pleased that this film is now on dvd/Blu-ray with English subtitles, and I watched it last night.
The film has the edge on crime because it has major contributions by crime writer José Giovanni (Joseph Damiani), an ex-con with a pretty unsavoury history, but any film which has his involvement is generally worth a look.
I should add, if you are not too familiar with French geography (important to the story), that Marseille down south is about as far away from Paris as you can get and Lyon is on-route, whereas Brussels in Belgium would be northbound-ish.
 

 
albert
27th Mar 2019
 Review
The story is of 5 criminals who are in on a drug deal, plans go awry immediately when the supplier reveals the shipment has arrived in one large haul and wants a quick full payment instead of the previously agreed smaller instalments. The gang meet and do agree to go ahead with the deal but unbeknown to the others there are two untrustworthy members, one hasn't the ready money for his stake so instead supplies counterfeit notes, and another gang member is tempted by the large bag of money instead. What starts off as a simple con amongst cons soon escalates into betrayal and murder, the slip-ups and curve-balls are like classic film-noir and everything is neatly paced despite the film's 105m duration.

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