Codine
Codine
Alexandru Virgil Platon and Răzvan Petrescu star in Codine (1963),directed by Henri Colpi. On Fmovies it carries a 7/10 rating from 10 votes. The title is a Drama film from France running 1h 38m. An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
- Genre: Drama
- Country: France, Romania
- Director: Henri Colpi
- Cast: Alexandru Virgil Platon, Răzvan Petrescu, Françoise Brion, Nelly Borgeaud, Germaine Kerjean, Maurice Sarfati, Eliza Petrăchescu, Graziela Albini, Eugenia Bosânceanu, Dorin Dron, Victor Moldovan, Mihai Mereuţă
