Rififi  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Tumblr
Wikisource
YouTube
Shop

Featured:
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Enlarge
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)

Rififi is a 1955 black-and-white French heist movie. Its original French title is Du rififi chez les hommes ("of brawling among men"), which was shortened for release in the English-speaking world (the word rififi means fighting or brawling).

The film was directed by Jules Dassin, creator of many American film noir classics including The Naked City, Thieves' Highway, Brute Force and Night and the City. The film stars Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, and Dassin himself as César le Milanais (the womaniser). The film's score was composed by Georges Auric.

The drug Rifampin owes its name to Rififi; the drug is based on a compound first isolated from soil flora on a French island, and investigators watched the film on the island.

Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Rififi" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Rififi"
Personal tools
Metas