Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
Michel Dreyfus-Schmidt
Leo Fortel
Pierre Grasset
Laurent Grousset
Rémy Grumbach
Masahiro Kobayashi
André S. Labarthe
Philippe Labro
Jean-Jacques Nataf
Rui Nogueira
Volker Schlöndorff
Bertrand Tavernier
Johnnie To
François Chalais
Jacques Chancel
Alain Delon
Jean-Pierre Melville
Paul Meurisse
Lino Ventura