The Dominici Affair (film)

The Dominici Affair
Directed byClaude Bernard-Aubert
Written by
Produced by
  • Sergio Bonotti
  • Eric Geiger
  • Claude Giroux
  • Éric Rochat
  • Jean Gabin
Starring
CinematographyRicardo Aronovich
Edited byLouisette Hautecoeur
Music byAlain Goraguer
Production
companies
  • Bocaccio Films
  • COFCI
  • Mondial Televisione Film
  • Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Distributed bySociété Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Release date
  • 7 March 1973 (1973-03-07)
Running time
105 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy
LanguageFrench

The Dominici Affair (French: L'affaire Dominici, Italian: L'affare Dominici) is a 1973 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert 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

References

  1. ^ 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.