The Dominici Affair (film)
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Cinematography | Ricardo Aronovich |
Edited by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Music by | Alain Goraguer |
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Distributed by | Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie |
Release date | 7 March 1973 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
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Language | French |
The Dominici Affair (French: L'affaire Dominici, Italian: L'affare Dominici) is a 1973 French-Italian crime drama film directed by and starring Jean Gabin, Victor Lanoux and Gérard Depardieu.[1] It is based on the Dominici affair of 1952.
Location shooting took place in Ribiers and Peipin in Hautes-Alpes where the real events occurred.
Synopsis[]
After a British family are found murdered on the road near his family's farm in rural Provence, the old villager Gaston Dominici is arrested and apparently confesses to the crime. He is tried and sentenced to death, but his punishment is commuted on health grounds amid growing doubts about his guilt.
Cast[]
- Jean Gabin as Gaston Dominici
- Victor Lanoux as Gustave Dominici
- Gérard Depardieu as Zeze Perrin
- Gérard Darrieu as Clovis Dominici
- Paul Crauchet as Le commissaire Sébeil
- Geneviève Fontanel as Yvette Dominici
- Evi Maltagliati as Marie Dominici
- Jacques Rispal as Paul Maillet
- Daniel Ivernel as Le président de la cour d'Assises
- as L'adjoint du commissaire
- as Périez, le juge d'instruction
- as Augusta Callat
- as L'avocat Emile Pollack
- Jean-Pierre Castaldi as Le premier journaliste
- as Sir Jack Drummond
- Henri Vilbert as Le président de la correctionnelle
- Alberto Farnese as Un journaliste italien
- as Le père d'Yvette
- as Germaine Perrin
- as Elizabeth Drummond
- Rafael Hernández as Lopez
- as Lady Ann Drummond
- as Le second journaliste
- Jean-Paul Moulinot as Le médecin légiste
- Michel Robin as Perrin
- as Le captaine de gendarmerie
- as L'homme qui félicite le commissaire
- Marie-Pierre Casey as La femme qui félicite le commissaire
- as Le maire
- Hubert de Lapparent as A former Resistance fighter
- Jacques Debary as Le commissaire divisionnaire
- as L'avocate
- as La vieille dame
- as Un membre de la famille Dominici
- as Le planton
- as Le cuisinie
References[]
- ^ Kitchin p.xviii
Bibliography[]
- Harriss, Joseph. Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was France. McFarland, 2018.
- Kitchen, Martin. The Dominici Affair: Murder and Mystery in Provence. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
External links[]
Categories:
- French-language films
- 1973 films
- French films
- Italian films
- Italian drama films
- Films directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert
- 1973 drama films
- French drama films
- Films set in the 1950s
- 1970s French film stubs