 
                                                                76 minutos
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
Self
 
                                                        Leo Fortel
Self
 
                                                        Pierre Grasset
Self
 
                                                        Laurent Grousset
Self
 
                                                        Rémy Grumbach
Self
 
                                                        Masahiro Kobayashi
Self
 
                                                        André S. Labarthe
Self
 
                                                        Philippe Labro
Self
 
                                                        Jean-Jacques Nataf
Self
 
                                                        Rui Nogueira
Self
 
                                                        Volker Schlöndorff
Self
 
                                                        Bertrand Tavernier
Self
 
                                                        Johnnie To
Self
 
                                                        François Chalais
Self (archive footage)
 
                                                        Jacques Chancel
Self (archive footage) (voice)
 
                                                        Alain Delon
Self (archive footage)
 
                                                        Jean-Pierre Melville
Self (archive footage)
 
                                                        Paul Meurisse
Self (archive footage)
 
                                                        Lino Ventura
Self (archive footage)