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Serge Alexandre Stavisky
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Stavisky... is a 1974 French biographical drama film based on the life of the financier and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky and the circumstances leading to his mysterious death in 1934. This gave rise to a political scandal known as the Stavisky Affair, which led to fatal riots in Paris, the resignation of two prime ministers and a change of ...
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May 15, 1974 · Stavisky: Directed by Alain Resnais. With Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Périer, Anny Duperey, Michael Lonsdale. A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Alain Resnais
- 1974-05-15
Serge Alexandre Stavisky (20 November 1886 – 8 January 1934) was a French financier and embezzler whose actions created a political scandal that became known as the Stavisky Affair. [1] [2] Early life [ edit ]
The Stavisky affair was a financial scandal in France in 1934, involving embezzler Alexandre Stavisky. The scandal had political ramifications for the Radical-Socialist government after it was revealed that Prime Minister Camille Chautemps had protected Stavisky, who died suddenly in mysterious circumstances.
Stavisky affair, French financial scandal of 1933 that, by triggering right-wing agitation, resulted in a major crisis in the history of the Third Republic (1870–1940). The scandal came to light in December 1933 when the bonds of a credit organization in Bayonne, founded by the financier Alexandre.
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Let it not be said his passing went unnoticed. But who was he really? What shaped him and why did he behave as he did, Stavisky didn't know, and Resnais doesn't know, either, and that provides the fascinating central mystery of the film. Like Charles Foster Kane, Alexandre Stavisky is a man of intriguing parts that make up any number of wholes.
March 1934 Issue. THE American reader must realize that the Stavisky Scandal involves matters of much deeper consequence than its surface facts reveal. Incredible as it seems, the malodorous ...
