(1911-) US-born international film director. After directing the violent prison film Brute Force 1947 and the thriller Naked City 1948, he left the US in the wake of the anti-Communist witch-hunts. The French-made gangster film Rififi 1954 was an international success, as was Never on Sunday 1960, filmed in Greece, in which Dassin starred opposite Melina Mercouri, his wife from 1966.
He later returned to the US to film Up Tight 1968. + prikaži više