Code Name Melville

Code Name Melville
Opening title credit
Directed by	Olivier Bohler
Produced by	Raphaël Millet Nocturnes Productions
Written by	Olivier Bohler
Starring	Jean-Pierre Melville (archival footage) Johnnie To Masahiro Kobayashi Bertrand Tavernier Philippe Labro Volker Schlöndorff André S. Labarthe (interviews)
Music by	Jessica Lalanne
Cinematography	Julien Selleron
Edited by	Nicolas Dupouy
Distributed by	StudioCanal (video)
Release dates	15 November 2008 (2008-11-15) Premiere at the Golden Horse Film Festival
Running time	76 minutes
Country
Language	French

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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.

Production

Code Name Melville is a co-production between Nocturnes Productions and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA, the French National Institute for Audiovisual).

It has been funded by the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image,^[3] the Regional Fund of Franche-Comté ^[4] and the Regional Fund of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, with the support of the French Ministry of Defence, Ciné Cinéma, RTBF and StudioCanal.

Cast

Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt
Leo Fortel
Pierre Grasset
Laurent Grousset
Rémy Grumbach
Masahiro Kobayashi
André S. Labarthe
Philippe Labro
Jean-Pierre Melville (archival footage)
Jean-Jacques Nataf
Rui Nogueira
Volker Schlöndorff
Bertrand Tavernier
Johnnie To

Festival screenings

Golden Horse Film Festival, Taipei, November 2008.
Torino Film Festival, November 2008.
Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA), Biarritz, 24 January 2009 (in competition for the Mitrani Award).^[5]
Festival international du film policier de Beaune, 9 April 2009 .^[6]
Sotto le Stelle del Cinema, Bologne, 27 July 2009.^[7]
Cambridge Film Festival, 19 & 25 September 2009.^[8]
CineCity - Brighton Film Festival, 24 November 2009.^[9]
Documentary Month in Franche-Comté, 2009.^[10]
Amiens International Film Festival, 19 novembre 2009.^[11]
Tokyo's Franco-Japanese Institute, in conjunction with Tokyo FilmEx, 12 December 2009.^[12]
French Cultural Center in Beijing, 21 December 2009.^[13]
Angers Premiers Plans Festival, January 2010.^[14]
Screenings as part of the Melville retrospective of the 26th French Film Festival in Singapore on 04 & 9 October 2010.^[15]^[16]
Screening at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 8 October 2010.
Screening at TischAsia (New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Asia), Singapore, 8 October 2010.
Screening at the Cinémathèque Française (French Cinematheque), Paris, 10 November 2010.^[17]
Screening at the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, on 25-26–27 February 2011.

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