Les tricheurs is the splendid dvd recently published by Minerva RaroVideo. For this edition it has been chosen the original version of the movie instead of the disfigured mutilated Italian one that reduced the movie of about thirty minutes.
Among the extra features, there are an alternative ending, playbills, trailer, texts from the novel and the photo-story – which followed the success of the movie – and two interviews: to the University teacher Stefania Parigi and to the musician Roberto Gatto. Two documents for dvd rom complete the dvd: the bio-filmography of the cinematographer Claude Renoir (Jean’s son) and of Laurent Terzieff (one of the leading actors). By tradition, the box contains a sixteen-page booklet that includes essays, excerpts from the press and the bio-filmography of Marcel Carné.
Les Tricheurs tells about the existential awkwardness of a generation who lived its childhood during the Second World War and who don’t believe anymore. Bob (Jacques Charrier) meets Alain (the great beginner Laurent Terzieff), an existentialist young student, with whom becomes friends. Bob falls in love with Mic (Pascale Petit), but he belongs to the war generation; therefore he doesn’t want to declare his love. He refuses to love…. without thinking about the repercussions of his behavior. The wonderful soundtrack was composed by the best exponent of international jazz music: Brown, Eldridge, Getz, Gillespie, Hawkins, Petterson.
Les tricheurs was released in Paris the 10th of October 1958 and it immediately became the most successful movie of 1958-59 season.
Prize- winner for Best French movie, Best Leading actress (Pascale Petit), Best Leading actor (Jacques Charrier). Grand Prix du cinéma français 1958. Best French movie in Bruxelles in 1958.
1958, France, 118’06’’, 35mm, b/w
direction: Marcel Carné
screenplay: Jacques Sigurd by a story written by Charles Spaak and Marcel Carné
photography: Claude Renoir
designing: Paul Bertrand
costume designer: Antoine Mayo
music: Maxime Saury, Ray Brown, Roy Eldrige, Herb Ellis, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillepsie, Coleman
Hawkins, Buddy Rich, Gus Johnson, Oscar Peterson, Fats Domino, Sonny Stitt, Norman Granz
editing: Albert Jurgenson
production: Silves Films, Cinétel/Parigi and Zebra Films/Rome
cast: Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier, Laurent Terzieff, Andréa Parisy, Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Dany Saval, Jacques Portet, Pierre Brice, Alfonso Mathis, Roland Armontel, Jacques Marin,
Roland Lesaffre, Denise Vernac, Claude Giraud, Dominique Page, Gabrielle Fontan,
Jean-François Poron, Gérard Darrieu, Jacques Perrin, Sergio Gobbi, Alain Saury, Alan Scott
EXTRA FEATURES:
The wasted youth for Carné – interview to Stefania Parigi (University Teacher at the University of Rome)
Jazz frames - interview to Roberto Gatto
Alternative ending
From the movie to the photo-story
From the movie to the novel
Playbills
Trailer
In ROM track: Bio-filmography of Claude Renoir and of Laurent Terzieff
A booklet of sixteen pages