The Clockmaker
1974 French film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Clockmaker (French: L'Horloger de Saint-Paul, also known as The Clockmaker of St. Paul and The Watchmaker of St. Paul) is a 1974 French crime drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Based on the 1954 novel L'Horloger d'Everton by Georges Simenon, it tells the story of a widowed father who first discovers how little he knows about his teenage son, who kills a man and with his girl goes on the run, but then decides that whatever their faults he will stand by the pair.
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Directed by | Bertrand Tavernier |
Written by | Georges Simenon (novel) Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost Bertrand Tavernier |
Produced by | Raymond Danon |
Starring | Philippe Noiret Jean Rochefort |
Cinematography | Pierre-William Glenn |
Edited by | Armand Psenny |
Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Distributed by | Studio Canal |
Release date | 16 January 1974 |
Running time | 105 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Box office | $7.4 million[1] |
The film was entered into the 24th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize.[2] In the United States, it was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review.[3]