Point de Chute (1970)

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Point de chute is a 1970 French film, directed by Robert Hossein and starring Johnny Hallyday as Vlad, the Romania and Pascale Rivault as Catherine. The film is about three masked criminals who kidnap the fifteen-year-old Catherine and take her to an isolated shack by the sea. While she tries to escape, she grows closer with the kidnapper, Vlad who is left to watch over her.

Production

Point de chute was a French film production, by the two Paris-based film production companies Les Films Marceau and Filmsonor. It was directed by Robert Hossein, with a story and screenplay by Claude Desailly. Johnny Hallyday was cast for Point de chute. At the time of production, Hallyday was among France's most popular singers. He had just finished filming Sergio Corbucci's Western film The Specialists (1969).

For the film, Hallyday recorded the song "La Chanson du Roumain", which was co-written by Jean Renard and Philippe Labro initially for Sylvie Vartan. The song went unused and remained unreleased until 1993. The score was by André Hossein, who is Robert Hossein's father.

Hossein initially had planned to pair Hallyday with the singer France Gall. Initial meetings between the director and Gall did not happen as Hossein was late to meet with her, which led to Gall having to leave for other work. This led to Pascale Rivault being cast in her debut role. Rivault would work with Hossein in several further films, while the two later entered a brief relationship.

Filming began on March 19, 1970, under the title Le Scandale de vivre (lit. 'The Scandal of Living'). It was filmed at the Pointe de la Coubre cape near Royan, and was being filmed until May.

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