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Original title

Codine

Year

1963

Running time

98 min.

Country

France

Director

Henri Colpi

Screenwriter

Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi, Yves Jamiaque

Cast

Music

Henri Colpi, Theodor Grigoriu

Cinematography

Stefan Horvath, Marcel Weiss

Producer

Co-production France-Romania;

Como Films, Romfilm, Tamara

Genre

Thriller | Crime

Synopsis

An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.

Awards: 1963: Cannes Film Festival: Best Screenplay

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Codine

1963

Henri Colpi