--- title: 'Sign of the Lion (1959)' type: 'film' director: 'Éric Rohmer' released: '1959-01-01' runtime_minutes: 103 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'France' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sign-of-the-lion-1959' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053279/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Sign of the Lion (1959) 1959 · 103 min · Drama · France Original title: Le Signe du Lion ## Synopsis Le Signe du lion is a black and white French drama film directed by Éric Rohmer, which was filmed on location in Paris in the summer of 1959 but not released until May 1962, and is not among his Six Moral Tales. It is his first full-length work. Along with The 400 Blows and À Double Tour by Claude Chabrol, who produced The Sign of Leo, it counts as one of the first films of the French New Wave. ## Credits - **Director:** [Éric Rohmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-rohmer) - **Screenplay:** [Éric Rohmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-rohmer) - **Original Music Composer:** [Louis Saguer](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-saguer) - **Producer:** [Claude Chabrol](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-chabrol) - **Director of Photography:** [Nicolas Hayer](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicolas-hayer) ## Cast - [Jess Hahn](https://cinepixo.com/people/jess-hahn) - [Jean-Pierre Melville](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-melville) - [Malka Ribowska](https://cinepixo.com/people/malka-ribowska) - [Françoise Prévost](https://cinepixo.com/people/francoise-prevost) - [Macha Méril](https://cinepixo.com/people/macha-meril) - [Van Doude](https://cinepixo.com/people/van-doude) - [Paul Bisciglia](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-bisciglia) - [Jean-Marie Arnoux](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-marie-arnoux) - [Gilbert Edard](https://cinepixo.com/people/gilbert-edard) - [Marie Dubois](https://cinepixo.com/people/marie-dubois) - [José Varela](https://cinepixo.com/people/jose-varela) - [Jean-Luc Godard](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-luc-godard) - [Paul Crauchet](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-crauchet) - [Uta Taeger](https://cinepixo.com/people/uta-taeger) - [Daniel Crohem](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-crohem) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/sign-of-the-lion-1959 Film facts: Wikidata (Q278476); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.