Alfred Hitchcok - Topaz (1969) [DVD9 PAL]





Original title Topaz

Original language English / Spanish / French / Russian

Country of manufacture United States of America

Year 1969

Duration 125 min

Widescreen report

Genre espionage, thriller

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Subject from the novel by Leon Uris

Screenplay Samuel A. Taylor (as Samuel Taylor)

Producer Alfred Hitchcock (uncredited)



Interpreters and characters



   Frederick Stafford: Andrè Devereaux

   Dany Robin: Nicole Devereaux

   Karin Dor: Juanita de Cordoba

   John Vernon: Rico Parra

   Claude Jade: Michèle Picard

   Michel Subor: François Picard

   Michel Piccoli: Jacques Granville

   Philippe Noiret: Henri Jarre

   Roscoe Lee Browne: Philippe Dubois

   Per-Axel Arosenius: Boris Kusenov

   John Forsythe: Michael Nordstrom

   Tina Hedström: Tamara Kusenov

   Sonja Kolthoff: Mrs. Kusenov

   Donald Randolph: Luis Uribe

   Edmon Ryan: McKittreck

   John van Dreelen: Claude Martin

   Roberto Contreras: Muñoz

   Carlos Rivas: Hernandez

   Roger Til: Jean Chabrier

   Lewis Charles: Pablo Mendoza

   Anna Navarro: Carlotta Mendoza

   Sándor Szabó: Emile Redon

   Lew Brown: American officer

   John Roper: the waiter Thomas

   Rita Conde: the cook Dolores

   George Skaff: René d'Arcy

   Ann Doran: Mrs. Foryth

   Fidel Castro: himself (archive footage)

   Che Guevara: himself (archive footage)



Language: English French Italian Spanish Portuguese

Subtitles: English French Italian Spanish Portuguese





Topaz is a 1969 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Universal had bought the rights to Leon Uris's spy book Topaz. In presenting the film project to the press, Hitchcock utters these words:



«I am here to present the next film that I intend to make within the year. It's based on a novel that has been on the bestseller list for over thirty weeks. "

(Alfred Hitchcock, Variety, May 8, 1968.)



The novel is based on a real event, the Affaire Sapphire of 1962, when during the crisis with Cuba the Americans discovered that within the De Gaulle government, the French Nato representative, Georges Paques, was actually a spy in the service of the KGB. since 1943.

Hitchcock entrusts the roles of the characters to non-famous actors: John Forsythe was the only one who had already worked with him in The Conspiracy of the Innocents. Some, due to the short working time, had been contacted when shooting had begun: Claude Jade was hired in Paris and was referred to him by François Truffaut with whom she had recently worked; Karin Dor was awarded the part when the crew, who had already shot several takes, returned to Hollywood. A particular case concerns the actor Aram Katcher, hired in the part of the chief of the Cuban police, who was not liked and, without his knowing it, was replaced by Roberto Contreras to whom Hitchcock had all the scenes redone.