That Man from Rio

"Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!"

1964 1h 57m FR

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★7.3TMDB · 365

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French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.

“Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!”

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Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo
Adrien Dufourquet
Françoise Dorléac
Agnès Villermosa
Jean Servais
Prof. Norbert Catalan
Simone Renant
Lola
Adolfo Celi
Señor Mario De Castro
Roger Dumas
Lebel
Daniel Ceccaldi
Commissaire
Ubiracy De Oliveira
"Sir Winston"

Credits

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Director: Philippe de Broca
Writers: Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Daniel Boulanger, Philippe de Broca
Languages: French, Portuguese
Countries: Brazil, France, Italy

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62 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, Portuguese.

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WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Brazil, France, Italy.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Philippe de Broca, shot by Edmond Séchan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Françoise Javet shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac and Jean Servais carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Philippe de Broca directs. Edmond Séchan behind the camera. Georges Delerue scores. Françoise Javet cuts. Produced in Brazil, France, Italy. Dialogue in French, Portuguese.

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162 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, Portuguese.
3International production across 3 countries: Brazil, France, Italy.
4Directed by Philippe de Broca, shot by Edmond Séchan. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Georges Delerue. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Françoise Javet shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac and Jean Servais carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Look what they call a quiet week in Rio!".
9IMDB entry: tt0058203 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "kidnapping", "spy", "rio de janeiro", "diamond mine".

The technical file

Cinematography: Edmond Séchan
Original score: Georges Delerue
Editing: Françoise Javet
Production design: Mauro Monteiro
Runtime: 117 min · 1h 57m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: FR
Certification (US): 12
IMDB: That Man from Rio (1964)

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Wuchak2023-05-18
★ 7/10
South by Southwest After a French woman (Françoise Dorléac.) is kidnapped due to her knowledge of a valuable tribal statue, her beau on leave from the military (Jean-Paul Belmondo) relentlessly pursues her from Paris to Rio de Janeiro to Brasília to the Amazon River and the deep jungles nearby. Jean Servais plays a Parisian professor while Adolfo Celi is on hand as a wealthy industrialist in Brasília. A French-Italian production with subtitles, “That Man from Rio” (1964) is an amusing globetrotting adventure inspired by the Franco-Belgian comics The Adventures of Tintin and intended to be a semi-spoof of flicks like “North by Northwest” (1959), the first two James Bond movies (1962-63) and “Secret of the Incas” (1954). Imagine “North by Northwest” mixed with the fun tone of an Elvis flick minus the songs and you’d have a good idea of this flick. The scenic globetrotting makes the film, especially the scenes in Brasília, the planned capital city of Brazil with its modernist architecture, which was still under construction when this was shot. Another highlight is the constant entertaining chase sequences. It influenced the tone of the 70s & early 80’s Bond movies, which added amusing touches to 007’s globetrotting escapades. It also influenced Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” (1981). While entertaining enough, the characters are mostly shallow and uninteresting. Any of the Roger Moore Bond movies is all-around more compelling and rewarding. But this came first and deserves credit. The film runs 1 hours, 50 minutes, and was shot on location in the places cited above. GRADE: B/B-

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