That Man from Rio

That Man from Rio
Theatrical release poster by Yves Thos
Directed byPhilippe de Broca
Written byPhilippe de Broca
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Ariane Mnouchkine
Daniel Boulanger
dialogue: Daniel Boulanger
Produced byGeorges Dancigers
Alexandre Mnouchkine
StarringJean-Paul Belmondo
Françoise Dorléac
Jean Servais
Adolfo Celi
Music byGeorges Delerue
Production
company
Les Films Ariane
Distributed byLes Productions Artistes Associés
United Artists
Release dates
  • 5 February 1964 (1964-02-05) (France)
  • 16 August 1964 (1964-08-16) (Italy)
Running time
110 minutes
Countries
  • France
  • Italy[1]
LanguageFrench

That Man from Rio (French: L'Homme de Rio) is a 1964 French-Italian international co-production adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac. It was the first film to be made by the French subsidiary of United Artists, Les Productions Artistes Associés. The film was a huge success with a total of 4,800,626 admissions in France, becoming the 5th highest earning film of the year.[2]

This fast-moving spoof of James Bond-type films features striking location photography by Edmond Séchan of Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and Paris. At the 37th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

The film is directly inspired by the comics of Belgian cartoonist Hergé, featuring a number of scenes that are direct retelling of plot points in The Adventures of Tintin.

  1. ^ "L'Homme de Rio". Unifrance.org. Retrieved August 18, 2023.
  2. ^ "L\'Homme de Rio (1964) - JPBox-Office".