Symphony for a Massacre
Cast & Crew
Jacques Deray
Michel Auclair
Claude Dauphin
José Giovanni
Charles Vanel
Jean Rochefort
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Synopsis
Parisian gangsters Clavet, Moreau, Valoti, Paoli, and Jabeke agree to share the purchase of a large shipment of narcotics. Moreau is chosen to make the purchase, but Jabeke plans an elaborate doublecross by providing himself with an alibi and then slipping aboard the train carrying Moreau to Marseilles. Entering Moreau's sleeping compartment in disguise, Jabeke accidentally awakens Moreau and kills him in the ensuing struggle. Back in Paris, Paoli confronts Jabeke with a newspaper account of Moreau's death; Jabeke mistakenly reveals his guilt and stabs Paoli to ensure his silence. Clavet and Valoti find Paoli's corpse, but the evidence seems to point to Valoti as the doublecrosser. Jabeke kills Clavet since further examination of the evidence would reveal his own guilt. Valoti searches Jabeke's apartment and finds the money, but Jabeke surprises him and kills him. Seemingly free now, Jabeke is about to enter his car when Clavet's widow shoots him.
Director
Jacques Deray
Cast
Michel Auclair
Claude Dauphin
José Giovanni
Charles Vanel
Jean Rochefort
Michèle Mercier
Daniela Rocca
Crew
Léon Barsacq
Jo De Bretagne
Paul Cayatte
Jacques Deray
Julien Derode
José Giovanni
José Giovanni
Michel Magne
Claude Renoir
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet
Robert Vélin
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Notes
Opened in Paris in August 1963 as Symphonie pour un massacre; running time: 110 min; in Rome in December 1963 as Sinfonia per un massacro. U. S. title later changed to The Mystifiers.
