Code Name Melville

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title: "Code Name Melville" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2008-films", "2008-documentary-films", "documentary-films-about-film-directors-and-producers", "documentary-films-about-world-war-ii", "french-documentary-films", "films-about-the-french-resistance", "2008-french-films"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Name_Melville" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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FieldValue
nameCode Name Melville
imageGénérique_image_Sous_le_nom_de_Melville.jpg
captionOpening title credit
directorOlivier Bohler
producerRaphaël Millet
Nocturnes Productions
writerOlivier Bohler
starringJean-Pierre Melville (archival footage)
Johnnie To
Masahiro Kobayashi
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Labro
Volker Schlöndorff
André S. Labarthe (interviews)
musicJessica Lalanne
cinematographyJulien Selleron
editingNicolas Dupouy
distributorStudioCanal (video)
released
runtime76 minutes
countryFrance
languageFrench
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| name = Code Name Melville | image = Générique_image_Sous_le_nom_de_Melville.jpg | caption = Opening title credit | director = Olivier Bohler | producer = Raphaël Millet Nocturnes Productions | writer = Olivier Bohler | starring = Jean-Pierre Melville (archival footage) Johnnie To Masahiro Kobayashi Bertrand Tavernier Philippe Labro Volker Schlöndorff André S. Labarthe (interviews) | music = Jessica Lalanne | cinematography = Julien Selleron | editing = Nicolas Dupouy | distributor = StudioCanal (video) | released = | runtime = 76 minutes | country = France | language = French | budget = | gross = Code Name Melville (original French title: Sous le nom de Melville) is a feature length documentary film about Jean-Pierre Melville, directed by Olivier Bohler and produced by Raphaël Millet for Nocturnes Productions in 2008. Its world premiere took place in November 2008 at the Golden Horse Film Festival in Taipei. It has been shown on French channel CinéCinéma Classic in March–April 2010, and on Belgian channel La Deux (RTBF) in May 2010. It is the first feature documentary about Jean-Pierre Melville since he died in 1973.

Synopsis

Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, was of Alsatian Jewish descent. Having to flee Nazi-occupied France during World War II, he joined the French Resistance and took the pseudonym Melville, in tribute to American novelist Herman Melville. He subsequently retained his war name as his stage name, once the war was over. This personal experience of the war and in particular of resistance fighting impacted Melville's formative year and has an influence which can be seen in his films.

Production

Code Name Melville is a co-production between Nocturnes Productions and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA, the French National Institute for Audiovisual).

It has been funded by the National Center of Cinematography and the moving image, the Regional Fund of Franche-Comté and the Regional Fund of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, with the support of the French Ministry of Defence, Ciné Cinéma, RTBF and StudioCanal.

Cast

Festival screenings

References

References

  1. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1309567/ ''Code Name Melville'' on IMDB]
  2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615161555/http://www.rtbf.be/tv/programme-tv/detail_sous-le-nom-de-melville?uid=49208161668&idshedule=801f1cce754ce9870a5299fed62cea79 Programming of ''Sous le nom de Melville'' on RTBF's website]
  3. (July 2019)
  4. (July 2019)
  5. "FIPA 2009 website".
  6. "Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune - fêtes et manifestations à BEAUNE - Côte-d'Or en Bourgogne".
  7. "Screening at the Festival international du film policier in Beaune".
  8. [http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/Sotto_stelle_cinema_2009/ev/programmazione Page on the official website of the Cineteca di Bologna]
  9. [http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2009/codename-melville/ Page on the website of the Cambridge Film Festival] {{webarchive. link. (September 30, 2009)
  10. "Listing in CineCity programme online".
  11. "CRDP's official programme".
  12. [http://www.filmfestamiens.org/?SOUS-LE-NOM-DE-MELVILLE&lang=en Page in Amiens International Film Festival's official website]
  13. "Annonce du film dans le programme officiel de l'Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo".
  14. "Présentation du film sur le site du festival Premiers Plans d'Angers".
  15. "Article in LePetitJournal.com".
  16. [http://www.nationalcriticschoice.com/singapore_french_film_festival Review of ''Code Name Melville'' on the National Critics Choice website]
  17. [http://www.cinematheque.fr/fr/projections/hommages-retrospectives/fiche-manifestation/sous-nom-melville,11910.html Programme officiel de la Cinémathèque française]{{Dead link. (July 2019)

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