Topkapi (1964)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Jules Dassin

Escritores:

Eric Ambler (novel)
Monja Danischewsky (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

17 septiembre 1964 (USA)

Género:

Aventura | Crimen | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

(where the jewels were!)

Plot:

Caper film about the theft of a jeweled dagger from an Istanbul museum.

Plot Keywords:

Museum | Istanbul | Dagger | Smuggling | Caper

Premios:

Won Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A fascinating guide to the jewel of the Dardanelles...

Reparto

Melina Mercouri	...	Elizabeth Lipp
Peter Ustinov	...	Arthur Simon Simpson
Maximilian Schell	...	Walter Harper
Robert Morley	...	Cedric Page
Jess Hahn	...	Hans Fisher
Gilles Ségal	...	Giulio the Human Fly
Akim Tamiroff	...	Gerven the Cook
Titos Vandis	...	Harback (as Titos Wandis)
Ege Ernart	...	Maj. Ali Tufan
Senih Orkan	...	First Shadow
Ahmet Danyal Topatan	...	Second Shadow
Joseph Dassin	...	Josef
Despo Diamantidou	...	Voula
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Bedri Çavusoglu	...	Police officer (uncredited)
Amy Dalby	...	Nanny (uncredited)
Jules Dassin	...	Turkish cop (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Jules Dassin

Créditos del guión
Eric Ambler		(novel "The Light of Day")
Monja Danischewsky		(screenplay)

Producida por
Jules Dassin	....	producer
Roger Dwyre	....	associate producer
Lee Katz	....	associate producer (uncredited)

Música original por
Manos Hatzidakis		(as Manos Hadjidakis)

Fotografía por
Henri Alekan		(director of photography)

Montaje por
Roger Dwyre

Departamento de maquillaje
Amato Garbini	....	makeup artist

Dirección de producción
André Cultet	....	production manager (as Andre Cultet)
Claude Hauser	....	assistant production manager

Ayudante de dirección
Ali Cakus	....	second assistant director
Joseph Dassin	....	second assistant director
Stepan Melikyan	....	second assistant director
Tom Pevsner	....	assistant director

Departamento de Arte
Jacques Douy	....	assistant sets
Max Douy	....	sets
André Labussière	....	set dresser (as Andre Labussiere)

Departamento de sonido
William Robert Sivel	....	sound engineer (as William Sivel)

Visual Effects
Jean Fouchet	....	optical effects

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Philippe Brun	....	camera operator: second unit
René Chabal	....	assistant camera (as Rene Chabal)
Gilbert Chain	....	camera operator
Roger Corbeau	....	still photographer
Max Lechevallier	....	assistant camera
Raymond Picon-Borel	....	camera operator: second unit

Departamento de vestuario
Theoni V. Aldredge	....	costumes (as Denny Vachlioti)

Departamento de Edición
Patrick Clement-Bayard	....	assistant editor
Johnny Dwyre	....	assistant editor
Daniele Grimberg	....	assistant editor (as Danielle Grimberg)

Otros miembros del equipo
Jean Fouchet	....	title designer: main titles
Lucie Lichtig	....	script

Compañías Productores

• Filmways Pictures (as Filmways)

Distribuidores

• United Artists (1964) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1968) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• MGM Home Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)

Duración:

119 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés | Francés | Turco | Alemán | Griego | Italiano

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Clasificación:

Australia:G | Finland:S | Ireland:G | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12

Locaciones de Filmación:

Istanbul, Turkey

Compañía:

Filmways Pictures

Trivialidades:

Six weeks after the release of Topkapi, a similar, real-life heist took place at a New York City museum. Although 22 gems were stolen, they were recovered within 48 hours.

Errores:

Continuidad: When the agent (in glasses) is marking a photograph with red texter, several extra lines appear on the photograph without him having drawn them.

Citas:

[first lines]
Elizabeth Lipp: It can be done! That's the way it can be done! Aaah... oh, excuse me; I've just had a great idea - something I've been looking for a long time... a very long time.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Mission: Impossible (1996)

A fascinating guide to the jewel of the Dardanelles...

Melina Mercouri introduces herself as a thief who doesn't hide the way she feels about the most wonderful emeralds… She wants to rob a dagger encrusted with fascinating gemstones…

One of her potential partners is her former lover Maximilian Schell, a very distinguished crook who fights at his best when he fights in a corner… Schell wants to pick his crew from amateurs with no police records, and strike the most protected fortress…

Peter Ustinov won his first Best Supporting Oscar for his amusing performance as the clever middle-aged 'nobody' who could have gone far but he always plays for small stakes…

Ustinov is the victim of circumstances, caught at the Turkish border with a riffle and six grenades… For that, his mission is to spy on the spies, and report to the Turkish security everything he overhears-no matter how trivial it may seem to him… The police gives him a chance to prove that he is not a terrorist… He accepts to work with them…

With a funny toy man who proposes to get into the palace museum without touching the floor; a mute acrobat who talks with his whole body; a mad muscle man who hates a drunken cook; a showman with no problems at the customs border; plus Islamic mosques; ancient streets; colorful bazaars; oiled wrestlers; talented belly dancers; and fable roofs; "Topkapi" overlooks both the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus, offering bright moments with a final suspense sequence in the 'Rififi' manner…