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L'étau

Titre original : Topaz
  • 1969
  • PG
  • 2h 23m
ÉVALUATION IMDb
6,2/10
21 k
MA NOTE
L'étau (1969)
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Liretrailer3 min 01 s
1 vidéo
99+ photos
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Un agent du renseignement français se retrouve mêlé à des affaires de la guerre froide. Tout d'abord en découvrant les événements qui mèneront à la crise des missiles de Cuba, puis en arrêta... Tout lireUn agent du renseignement français se retrouve mêlé à des affaires de la guerre froide. Tout d'abord en découvrant les événements qui mèneront à la crise des missiles de Cuba, puis en arrêtant un réseau international d'espions russes.Un agent du renseignement français se retrouve mêlé à des affaires de la guerre froide. Tout d'abord en découvrant les événements qui mèneront à la crise des missiles de Cuba, puis en arrêtant un réseau international d'espions russes.

  • Director
    • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers
    • Leon Uris
    • Samuel A. Taylor
  • Stars
    • Frederick Stafford
    • Dany Robin
    • John Vernon
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  • ÉVALUATION IMDb
    6,2/10
    21 k
    MA NOTE
    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Leon Uris
      • Samuel A. Taylor
    • Stars
      • Frederick Stafford
      • Dany Robin
      • John Vernon
    • 124Commentaires d'utilisateurs
    • 59Commentaires de critiques
    • 61Métascore
  • Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro
    • Prix
      • 3 victoires et 1 nomination au total

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    Rôles principaux70

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    Frederick Stafford
    Frederick Stafford
    • Andre Devereaux
    Dany Robin
    Dany Robin
    • Nicole Devereaux
    John Vernon
    John Vernon
    • Rico Parra
    Karin Dor
    Karin Dor
    • Juanita de Cordoba
    Claude Jade
    Claude Jade
    • Michele Picard
    Michel Subor
    Michel Subor
    • Francois Picard
    Michel Piccoli
    Michel Piccoli
    • Jacques Granville
    Philippe Noiret
    Philippe Noiret
    • Henri Jarre
    John Forsythe
    John Forsythe
    • Michael Nordstrom
    Per-Axel Arosenius
    • Boris Kusenov
    Roscoe Lee Browne
    Roscoe Lee Browne
    • Philippe Dubois
    Edmon Ryan
    Edmon Ryan
    • McKittreck
    Tina Hedström
    Tina Hedström
    • Tamara Kusenova
    • (as Tina Hedstrom)
    Sonja Kolthoff
    • Mrs. Kusenova
    John Van Dreelen
    John Van Dreelen
    • Claude Martin
    Donald Randolph
    Donald Randolph
    • Luis Uribe
    • (as Don Randolph)
    Roberto Contreras
    Roberto Contreras
    • Muñoz
    Carlos Rivas
    Carlos Rivas
    • Hernandez
    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writers
      • Leon Uris
      • Samuel A. Taylor
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    Commentaires des utilisateurs124

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    7fletch5

    Interesting but unsatisfying

    "Topaz" is one of Hitchcock's least satisfying films, yet the same time it's one of his most interesting ones, as well. Usually people don't remember it, maybe because there are no famous Hitchcock stars. Either the director didn't get any, or he didn't want them, because the audiences should tightly concentrate on the complex plot.

    The film clearly divides into three parts. The one in the middle, which takes place in Cuba, is the best of them. It involves the films most memorable scene, the beautifully photographed murder. Weakest part is the last one, where you might get confused with the messy intrigues.

    There are too many characters in the movie, which leaves many of them just bystanders, for example the worried wife (Dany Robin), who doesn't do really anything. The films brightest spot is Karin Dor, who gives an excellent performance as the beautiful Juanita. Too bad that her screen time is quite short. And the ending climax shines with its absence: the film ends like bumping into a wall.
    7JuguAbraham

    Brilliant sequences in an unsung Hitchcock film

    While Leon Uris' book is a good read, Hitchcock's adaptation of the book for cinema captures much of the book's selling points. The killing of Juanita by Rico Parra is central to book and the film. The book has a sensual scene where Juanita distracts Parra to allow Andre to escape before she is killed. In the film, Hitchcock dispenses with the sexual distraction to go directly to the killing. The killing of Juanita captured by the overhead camera, shows the purple gown spreading in the floor as blood would have spread. No blood is shown—only the gown. What a brilliant shot from Hitchcock and cameraman Jack Hildyard! The second remarkable facet of the movie is the performance of Phillip Noiret as a French bureaucrat and spy. The lunch sequence (a typical Hitchcock food event) may look simple but the montage of shots capturing Noiret's apparent interest in the food than the conversation is truly engaging. Noiret is a fine actor. So is Michel Piccoli. The two of them outshine Frederick Stafford and John Forsythe.

    The third most fascinating shot is post-torture interrogation of Mrs Mendoza—the whispered response from a posture that reminds one of Michelangelo's Pieta—with her dead husband replacing the dead Christ.

    Hitchcock's perseverance with "marriage" continues. Andre blandly tells his daughter of his wife "She left me. I did not leave her" after a tryst with his lover in Havana. The Michel Piccoli character says of Andre's wife "Andre, his wife and I were very close. She married him." We know later that Andre's wife was cheating on him as she recognizes the Piccoli character's phone number at his secret love nest.

    The defection sequence in Copenhagen might look clumsy—but Hitchcock's style is everywhere—faces in mirrors, close up of a porcelain figure about to be dropped with no music in the background, etc. What was most amusing was the criticism of the American espionage agents: "We would have done it better" and the exchange of words by the defector in Washington, D.C. Andre's outburst to his bosses on the outcome of French intervention in the defection would lead to the defector's assassination is equally poignant had the film ended with the French spy defecting to Russia (one of the alternate endings).

    Finally, Hitchcock's use of the newspaper headlines during key scenes in the background was interesting: The Pieta shot had the newspaper shot in the background and the newspaper left behind on a bench in Paris is the final shot. The alternate endings—the duel and the departure of the spies to two cold-warring countries would not have served well as well the suicide of the spy suggested by the gunshot in his house.
    6gridoon

    Serviceable, workmanlike spy thriller that will never end up in anyone's "Top 10 Hitchcock films" list

    "Topaz" is at its best when Alfred Hitchcock lets the camera tell the story: there are several small but brilliant moments in this film. But while his direction is still masterful, his pacing certainly isn't - the film often feels talky and plodding. The abrupt ending is another problem - one of the alternative endings, the airport one, sounds much better (unfortunately I haven't had the chance to see it yet). Frederick Stafford is no Cary Grant or even Rod Taylor, but he does the job; so do the rest of the actors, with Phillipe Noiret a standout in a brief role and Karin Dor adding a touch of sensuality to the proceedings. On the whole, "Topaz" is not even among Hitchcock's Top 10 pictures, but his fans will still have fun spotting his touches here and there. His cameo - a wheelchair-bound man who suddenly gets up and starts walking (!) - is just one of them. (**1/2)

    EDIT: I finally did see the airport ending: it is undeniably better than the present one, but still a bit too abrupt.
    ecarle

    The French Connection

    One aspect of "Topaz" that should be kept in mind is that while American and British critics were belittling Hitchcock as a "mere entertainer," the French New Wave critics, led by Francois Truffaut, were lionizing him and Truffaut even published a book-long interview with Hitchcock published in 1967.

    Hitchcock hadn't worked in years and was desperately trying to get another movie going when Universal showed him the book "Topaz" -- about spies in the French government, with a French protagonist and climactic scenes in Paris. I think that Hitchcock may have -- unwisely -- decided to do "Topaz" so he could do a "French picture."

    There are some great individual scenes in Topaz -- the opening defection in Copenhagen, the suspenseful mission to get secrets from the Cubans in Harlem's Hotel Theresa (Hitchcock in Harlem?!); the hero's dangerous mission into Cuba and the death of his key contact there.

    But Hitchcock really didn't like making "Topaz," he was bored and ill and resentful (Universal had killed a project called "Frenzy" -- not to be confused with the 1972 film he made of that name -- and Hitchcock was bitter about it.)

    So we end up with a very half-hearted Hitchcock movie with a few good scenes, no real stars, THREE failed endings (all available to see on the DVD), and an attempt to "make nice with my French friends."
    7bkoganbing

    Doing A Favor For An Ally

    Topaz was the third from the last of the great Alfred Hitchcock's films and in those last few films Hitch eschewed using big American box office names. No doubt he'd come to the conclusion that his was the biggest box office name on the credits.

    But if the leading and many of the supporting players were not known to American audiences they were certainly known to French audiences. Dany Robin, Frederick Stafford, Phillippe Noiret, Michel Subor, Michel Piccoli all have had substantial careers in the French cinema.

    Topaz is certainly an international thriller with the action going from Copenhagen, to Harlem, to Cuba, and finally Paris. Only Cuba was not shot on actual location for obvious reasons.

    The film is based on a spy novel surrounding the Cuban Missile Crisis. A Russian defector whose defection with his family is very nicely shot in Copenhagen hints at some major problems coming our way in the Pearl of the Antillies. Our biggest problem though is that because of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, we've got no real intelligence on the ground in Cuba. What to do?

    Well if you're John Forsythe there's been a reason you've been cultivating the French for years. He goes to Frederick Stafford of French intelligence and asks him to find out what's happening in Cuba.

    History in 1962 bares witness to what was happening in Cuba at that time, but also Stafford is concerned the Russians have a spy real high up in the French government, code name, Topaz.

    There's a romantic angle here to, so very French. Stafford makes use of his mistress, a Cuban girl played by Karin Dor who wife Dany Robin has reasons to be suspicious of. Then again she's not sitting home waiting for the grass to grow under her feet. She's having a fling with Michel Piccoli who is a friend of her husband.

    International Geopolitics and romantic affairs are all tied together in this novel which Hitchcock serves up with his usual touch.

    What a sad end both the leads in this film had. Frederick Stafford was killed in a plane crash in 1979 and Dany Robin and her husband died in an apartment house fire in 1995. Truly a cursed film.

    Besides those mentioned look for good performances by John Vernon as a Castro aide and wannabe and from Roscoe Lee Browne who's an operator for French Intelligence in Harlem. I kid you not.

    It's not one of Alfred Hitchcock's best films, but Topaz is entertaining enough and Hitchcock fans won't be disappointed.

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    • Anecdotes
      According to Sir Alfred Hitchcock, this was another of his experimental movies. In addition to the dialogue, the plot is revealed through the use of colors, predominantly red, yellow, and white. He admits that this did not work out.
    • Gaffes
      A shot during the May Day parade sequence at the beginning of the film clearly reveals the parade to be taking place during the 50th anniversary of the October revolution (around the 1:29 mark), putting it in 1967 as opposed to 1961-63 when the story is supposed to have taken place. Therefore a person watching this parade could not have possibly defected to the USA and warned them of the Soviet missile deployment in Cuba (as is claimed in the beginning of the film).
    • Citations

      Nicole Devereaux: Okay, I'm going. And you two secret agents can settle down and be secret agents.

      Andre Devereaux: I wish you wouldn't use such words, my love.

      Nicole Devereaux: Why? Who do you think you are fooling, my master spy? Everybody in Washington knows that you are not a Commercial Attaché. Everybody in Washington knows that the Chief of Russian Intelligence is the chauffeur who drives a car for...

      Andre Devereaux: Everybody in Washington does *not* know these things. And I would thank you not to repeat them. Go to bed.

      Michael Nordstrom: Nicole, where did you hear that about the Chief of Russian Intelligence?

      Nicole Devereaux: From my butcher.

    • Générique farfelu
      Opening credits prologue: Somewhere in this crowd is a high Russian official who disagrees with his government's display of force and what it threatens. Very soon his conscience will force him to attempt an escape while apparently on a vacation with his family. Copenhagen, Denmark Nineteen Hundred Sixty-two
    • Autres versions
      Hitchcock shot two versions with completely different endings. Both endings are featured in the laserdisc version.
    • Connexions
      Edited into Topaz: Alternative Endings (1969)
    • Bandes originales
      Chant sans paroles, op. 40, No. 6
      (1878)

      Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (as Pyotr Tchaikovsky)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 19 décembre 1969 (United States)
    • Pays d’origine
      • United States
    • Site officiel
      • Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
    • Langues
      • English
      • Spanish
      • French
      • Russian
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Topaz
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Frederiksberg, Danemark
    • société de production
      • Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions
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      • 4 000 000 $ US (estimation)
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      • 88 $ US
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      2 heures 23 minutes
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    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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