Rififi
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| Du rififi chez les hommes | |
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| Directed by | Jules Dassin |
| Produced by | René Gaston Vuattoux |
| Written by | Auguste Le Breton (novel) Jules Dassin René Wheeler Auguste Le Breton screenplay and dialogue |
| Starring | Jean Servais Carl Möhner Robert Manuel Jules Dassin |
| Music by | Georges Auric |
| Cinematography | Philippe Agostini |
| Release date(s) |  April 13, 1955 June 5, 1956 |
| Running time | 115 min |
| Language | French |
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Du rififi chez les hommes, released in the English-speaking world as Rififi, is a 1955 black-and-white heist movie. The word rififi means fighting or brawling. The film was directed by Jules Dassin, creator of many American film noir classics including The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Brute Force and Night and the City. The film stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, and Dassin himself as César le Milanais (the womaniser). The film's score was composed by Georges Auric.
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[edit] Adaptation
Rififi is based on a novel by Auguste le Breton; le Breton assisted in adapting it to film. However, Dassin expanded the safe-cracking job, which is negligible in the book, into a 32-minute sequence that occupies a fourth of the running time and is played entirely without dialogue or music. So meticulous is the construction and so specific the detail of this scene that it's said the Paris police briefly banned the movie because they feared it was an instructional guide.[citation needed]
[edit] Critical reaction
The film today is considered a classic film noir; critic Roger Ebert lists the film in his '100 Greatest Movies'.
François Truffaut called Rififi "the best film noir he'd ever seen" (it was based, he added, on the worst noir novel he'd ever read).[citation needed]
[edit] Remake
This movie is set to be remade in 2007, directed by Harold Becker and staring Al Pacino. [1]
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