A Man Named Rocca

A Man Named Rocca
Directed by	Jean Becker
Produced by	Adry De Carbuccia Roland Girard
Screenplay by	Jean Becker
Based on	L'Excommunié by José Giovanni
Starring	Jean Paul Belmondo
Music by	Claude Normand
Cinematography	Ghislain Cloquet
Release dates	1961
Country	France
Language	French

A Man Named Rocca (French: Un nommé La Rocca, Italian: Quello che spara per primo) is a 1961 French-Italian crime-thriller film directed by Jean Becker and starring Jean Paul Belmondo. It is based on the 1968 novel L'Excommunié by José Giovanni. The film made admissions of 1,193,387 in France.^[1]

Cast

• Jean-Paul Belmondo as Roberto La Rocca
• Christine Kaufmann as Geneviève Adé
• Pierre Vaneck as Xavier Adé
• Béatrice Altariba as Maud
• Henri Virlogeux as Ficelle
• Mario David as Charlot l'élégant
• Pedro Serano as Migli
• Charles Moulin as Cipriano
• Jean-Pierre Darras as Nevada
• Claude Piéplu as le directeur de la prison
• Michel Constantin as le chef des racketteurs américains
• Frédéric Lambre as Fanfan
• Claude Jaeger as Fernand l’Italien
• Gérard Hernandez as un détenu démineur
• Henri Arius as le chef responsable du cachot de la prison
• Edmond Beauchamp as l'avocat de Xavier
• Jacques Léonard as le joueur qui refuse de partir
• Dominique Zardi as le prisonnier sautant sur une mine

References

1. Box office information for film at Box Office Story

External links

• A Man Named Rocca at the Internet Movie Database