---
title: 'Mississippi Mermaid (1969)'
type: 'film'
director: 'François Truffaut'
released: '1969-06-21'
runtime_minutes: 119
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/mississippi-mermaid-1969'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064990/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

1969 · 119 min · Drama, Crime · France, Italy

Original title: La Sirène du Mississipi

## Synopsis

Mississippi Mermaid is a 1969 romantic crime drama film written and directed by François Truffaut and starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve. Adapted from the 1947 novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish, the film follows a tobacco planter on the island of Réunion who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives, it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway.

## Credits

- **Producer:** [Marcel Berbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-berbert)
- **Director:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut)
- **Screenplay:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Antoine Duhamel](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoine-duhamel)
- **Director of Photography:** [Denys Clerval](https://cinepixo.com/people/denys-clerval)
- **Editor:** [Agnès Guillemot](https://cinepixo.com/people/agnes-guillemot)

## Cast

- [Nelly Borgeaud](https://cinepixo.com/people/nelly-borgeaud)
- [Catherine Deneuve](https://cinepixo.com/people/catherine-deneuve)
- [Jean-Paul Belmondo](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-paul-belmondo)
- [Alexandra Stewart](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandra-stewart)
- [Albert Ramassamy](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-ramassamy)
- [Marcel Berbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-berbert)
- [Martine Ferrière](https://cinepixo.com/people/martine-ferriere)
- [Michel Bouquet](https://cinepixo.com/people/michel-bouquet)
- [Delphine Seyrig](https://cinepixo.com/people/delphine-seyrig)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/mississippi-mermaid-1969
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