Nada (1974 film)
Nada (known as The Nada Gang in the USA.[1]) is a Franco-Italian political thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol released in 1974 and adapted from the crime novel Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette.[2] Inspired by the May 1968 events in France, the film has been described as a social thriller.[3]
Synopsis
The anarchist group "Nada" kidnaps the United States Ambassador to France in a brothel. During the operation, a police officer is killed and commissaire Goemond is given a free hand to do everything to resolve this affair…[4]
Crew
Source: IMDb[5]
- Director : Claude Chabrol
- Screenplay : Claude Chabrol from the novel Nada by Jean-Patrick Manchette
- Script : Claude Chabrol
- Director of photography : Jean Rabier
- Sound : Guy Chichignoud
- Music : Pierre Jansen
- Scenery : Guy Littaye
- Assistant-director : Régis Wargnier
- Editor : Jacques Gaillard
- Script : Aurore Paquiss
- Production : Les Films de La Boétie, Italian International Film (Rome)
- Producer : André Génovès
- Distributor : Les Films de La Boétie, CIC - Cinema International Corporation
- Length : 110 minutes
Cast
- Fabio Testi (Diaz)
- Maurice Garrel (Epaulard)
- Mariangela Melato (Cash)
- Michel Duchaussoy (Treuffais)
- Michel Aumont (Goemond)
- Didier Kaminka (Meyer)
- Lou Castel (D'Arey)
- Katia Romanoff (Anna Meyer)
- André Falcon (the Minister)
- Lyle Joyce (Ambassador Poindexter)
- Viviane Romance (Mme Gabrielle)
- Daniel Lecourtois (The Préfet)
- Rudy Lenoir (M. Bouillon)
- François Perrot
References
- Nora Sayre, "Screen: Chabrol's 'The Nada Gang' Is at Playboy:The Cast", New York Times, 7 November 1974
- Andrew Sarris, "Fear & loathing of the bourgeoisie", The Village Voice, 14 November 1974 - Nada at Ciné-Ressources
- Atack, Margaret (1999). May 68 in French Fiction and Film: Rethinking Society, Rethinking Representation. Oxford University Press. p. 129. ISBN 9780198715153.
- Cook, Malcolm (1993). French Culture Since 1945. London: Longman. p. 86. ISBN 9780582088061. - David Stanners, Nada review, Eye For Film, 7 August 2005
- Full Cast & Crew
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