Cannabis

Cannabis (1970)

He's the best hit man in the business His target - THE GODFATHER... His price - one million dollars.

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...

Date of release
1970-09-02
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Pierre Koralnik

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Paris

Cannabis is a 1970 crime film directed by Pierre Koralnik. It is a co-production between France, West Germany and Italy. It stars Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Paul Nicholas and Curd Jürgens.

Production

Cannabis is Pierre Koralnik's first theatrical feature film. He had previously directed a television film Anna (1967) which featured music composed and performed by Serge Gainsbourg. Gainsbourg was appreciative of Koralnik's work and became friends with him and was determined to work with him again. Other crew members of Anna would return to work on Cannabis, including cinematographer Willy Kurant.

The producers of Cannabis took advantage of a relationship that had developed between Jane Birkin and Gainsbourg of their re-recorded version of the song "Je t'aime... moi non plus" which was released in 1969 and the film they had been in together that was a hit: The Pleasure Pit (1969).

The film is based on the novel ... et puis s'en vont. The novel was credited to F.S. Gilbert, a pseudonym that was screenwriter Michel Fabre and Jacques Sergune. Koralnik said he was forced to use the book as the rights to have been brought as to feature Birkin and Gainsbourgh in "the best possible way." To write the screenplay, Koralnik partnered with Frantz-André Burguet, a novelist and literary critic who had previously cowritten dialogue for…

The film was shot between October 20 to December 15, 1969. Koralnik said the film suffered from the usual problems of international co-productions. Birkin said that Koralnik wanted to make a more personal film, one where the story had very little importance. The score for Cannabis was composed and written by Gainsbourg after the film had been shot.

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