Rififi
1955 · TMDB 7.8 · Du rififi chez les hommes
Directed by Jules Dassin
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Why it matters
Jules Dassin's Parisian jewel robbery, built around a thirty-minute wordless safe-cracking sequence that remains the genre's high-water mark of pure process. The film's charm is inseparable from its bitterness.
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Released
- 1955-04-13
- Studio
- Indusfilms
- Country
- France
- Language
- Italian
- TMDB score
- 7.8
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Key contributors
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Jules Dassin
Director
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René Wheeler
Writer
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Auguste Le Breton
Writer
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Jean Servais
Tony le Stéphanois
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Carl Möhner
Jo le Suedois
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Robert Manuel
Mario Ferrati
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Janine Darcey
Louise
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Pierre Grasset
Louis Grutter aka Louis le Tatoué
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Robert Hossein
Rémi Grutter
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Marcel Lupovici
Pierre Grutter
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Dominique Maurin
Tonio
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