Codine (1963)
1h 38m
Running Time
May 15, 1963Release Date
Plot.
An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
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Cast & Crew.
Alexandru Virgil Platon
Codine
Răzvan Petrescu
Adrian Zograffi
Françoise Brion
Irène
Germaine Kerjean
Anastasia
Nelly Borgeaud
Zoitza Zograffi
Henri Colpi
Director
Maurice Sarfati
Alexis
Panait Istrati
Writer
Eliza Petrăchescu
Catrina
Yves Jamiaque
Writer
Graziela Albini
Anghelina
Eugenia Bosânceanu
Mara
Samy Halfon
Producer
Dorin Dron
Ștefan
Victor Moldovan
Anton
Theodor Grigoriu
Composer
Details.
Wiki.
Codine is a 1963 French-Romanian crime film directed by Henri Colpi. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best Screenplay.