The Cotton Club
Filmfest 2015
USA 1984
Original version
(Original: English)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Section: Open Air | Swing
Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo rejoin forces to create a 'mesmerizing' (L.A. Weekly) homage to 1930s gangster films and musicals. 1928 New York. Spirits are high and sultry jazz lively dancing and ruthless gangsters rule supreme. In the center of it all is Harlem's Cotton Club... As tensions rise so do tempers and the legendary nightclub becomes a pressure cooker of jilted loves and mob jobs that blows the lid off one of the most shocking showdowns ever staged. MGM
Nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Film Editing).
Cast: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee, Bob Owney Madden
Credits
Screenplay: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo, William Kennedy
Director of Photography: Stephen Goldblatt
Film Editor: Barry Malkin, Robert Q. Lovett
Composer: John Barry
Production Designer: Richard Sylbert
Costume Design: Milena Canonero
Sound: Jack C. Jacobsen
Producer: Robert Evans
Production Company: American Zoetrope
Co-Producer: Sylvio Tabet, Fred Roos
Co-Production Company: Producers Sales Organization, Totally Independent Productions
Distributor: STUDIOCANAL GmbH
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
