Le Trou - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Le Trou"
Le Trou (1960)
Timing: 2:12 (132 min)
Le Trou - TMDB rating
8.2/10
563
Le Trou - Kinopoisk rating
8.13/10
3965
Le Trou - IMDB rating
8.5/10
19677

Film crew

Director

Producer

Executive Producer

Georges Charlot
Executive Producer

Editor

Geneviève Vaury
Editor

Production Design

Rino Mondellini
Production Design

Original Music Composer

Photo Philippe Arthuys #122089

Philippe Arthuys

Philippe Arthuys
Original Music Composer

Co-Producer

Georges Lourau
Co-Producer

Director of Photography

Photo Ghislain Cloquet #122049

Ghislain Cloquet

Ghislain Cloquet
Director of Photography

Script Supervisor

Sophie Cloquet
Script Supervisor

Still Photographer

Henry Thibault
Still Photographer

Production Manager

Georges Charlot
Production Manager
Jean Mottet
Production Manager

Screenplay

Jean Aurel
Screenplay

Novel

Assistant Director

Photo Jean Becker #122083

Jean Becker

Jean Becker
Assistant Director

Sound Engineer

Pierre-Louis Calvet
Sound Engineer

Sound Assistant

Maurice Dagonneau
Sound Assistant
Jean Bareille
Sound Assistant

Production Secretary

Odette Laeupplée
Production Secretary

Line Producer

Paul Laffargue
Line Producer

Administration

Jacqueline Dudilleux
Administration

Dialogue

Assistant Camera

Jean Chiabaut
Assistant Camera
Gilbert Chain
Assistant Camera
François Lauliac
Assistant Camera

Assistant Decorator

Jean Taillandier
Assistant Decorator
Paul Moreau
Assistant Decorator

What's left behind the scenes

  • Director Jacques Becker died in 1960 at the age of 53, two weeks after finishing filming. The film was completed according to his wishes, but producer Serge Zilberman (1917-2003) cut 24 minutes of footage from the 140-minute version in the hope of improving the film’s commercial potential. The deleted scenes have never been seen again.
  • To enhance the realism of what was happening on screen, Jacques Becker primarily used non-professional actors. In particular, one of the participants in the 1947 prison escape played a role in the film, which was based on real events.
  • The sound in the film is entirely diegetic. This means it is sound reproduced within the world constructed inside the screen production. This category includes: character speech, ambient sounds, and music whose source is located within the world of the production. The source of diegetic sound is not always in the frame, meaning it's the sound that the characters can hear.
  • With the help of three participants in the 1947 escape, who were brought on as consultants to the film crew, the setting of the "Sante" prison was recreated down to the smallest detail.
  • This was the first film in the career of 13-year-old Katrine Spaaek at the time. She even played without her last name being mentioned in the credits, but her performance impressed a Parisian television reporter who interviewed her. The interview, in turn, caught the eye of Sophia Loren, who immediately realized that the teenage girl was perfect for the lead role in "Sweet Deception" (Alberto Lattuada, 1960), for which Loren's husband and producer Carlo Ponti was actively casting actors.
  • According to newspaper reports from 1964, Jacques Becker first learned about the 1947 escape from the "Sante" prison from a newspaper. Years later, Becker discovered that in 1957, José Giovanni (1923-2004) had written a novel called "The Escape" about an escape attempt in which he himself had participated. Becker contacted Giovanni through his publisher with an offer to write the screenplay for the film.
  • The nearly 4-minute scene in which prisoners break through the concrete floor of the cell was filmed without breaks.
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