Stavisky

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Stavisky

PG,

1974,

1h 57m,

Biography

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79%

14 Reviews

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60%

250+ Ratings

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14 Reviews

60%

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250+ Ratings

After Serge Alexandre Stavisky (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is arrested for fraud for the first time in 1926, his ashamed father kills himself. Undeterred, Stavisky sticks with con games, rising in prominence by selling worthless investments to the French government. Devoted to his wife, Arlette (Anny Duperey), Stavisky prospers despite swindling old friends like Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer). When rumors of his financial dishonesty and extravagances spread, the disgraced financier goes on the run.

Helen Frizell

Sydney Morning Herald

Feb 26, 2025

Renais, at the end, produces a theory by which he links the two men. Unconvincing. I found the whole thing a bore.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Oct 6, 2023

Stavisky has been made as if vitality would be a sin against art. The intricate plot provided by the screenwriter, Jorge Semprun, seems purposeless, except for back and forth movement that he wants in the cutting.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Oct 11, 2018

A deceptively ruminative entertainment with a fizzy melancholy, and awash in sensory pleasures.

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David Sterritt

Christian Science Monitor

Aug 7, 2021

Rarely are style and content so consciously, and thoroughly, mixed. And rarely does a film so sparkle with dreams of decades past.

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Jacoba Atlas

Los Angeles Free Press

Dec 6, 2019

Deceptively beautiful, deceptively linear, Stavisky is a complex and subtle work, a worthy successor to [Alain] Resnais' most controversial films.

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Armond White

National Review

Oct 31, 2018

Resnais and Semprún's themes are pleasure, happiness, riches, death, and the past -- as envisaged in the stylized recall of fancy-dressed individuals and the nation.

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Alain Resnais

Director

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Serge Alexandre Stavisky

Charles Boyer

Le baron Jean Raoul

Anny Duperey

Arlette

François Perier

Albert Borelli

Michaël Lonsdale

Docteur Mézy

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After Serge Alexandre Stavisky (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is arrested for fraud for the first time in 1926, his ashamed father kills himself. Undeterred, Stavisky sticks with con games, rising in prominence by selling worthless investments to the French government. Devoted to his wife, Arlette (Anny Duperey), Stavisky prospers despite swindling old friends like Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer). When rumors of his financial dishonesty and extravagances spread, the disgraced financier goes on the run.

Director: Alain Resnais
Screenwriter: Jorge Semprún
Distributor: Cinemation Industries
Production Co: Cerito Films, Euro International Film (EIA) S.p.A., Les Films Ariane
Rating: PG
Genre: Biography
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): May 15, 1974, Original
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.0K
Runtime: 1h 57m
Sound Mix: Mono

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