A Bullet Through the Heart

A Bullet Through the Heart (French: Une balle au cœur, Greek: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά) is a 1966 Franco-Greek film directed by Jean-Daniel Pollet.

Plot 
Keeping an old resentment against Montelepre – a Sicilian aristocratic family –, an influential gangster named Rizzardi (Vasilis Diamantopoulos), takes possession of the palace of last representative of the family, Francesco Montelepre (Sami Frey), who he plans to kill. Stripped of its property, Francesco flew to Athens to find a witness for Rizzardi's crimes so that justice is done. Despite the help of Carla (Jenny Karezi), a nightclub singer, his research are vain. And now Rizzardi's henchmen, led by Navarra (Spýros Fokás) are in pursuit again. Fleeing from village to village, Montelepre managed to kill them one by one. Meanwhile, he finds love with Anna (Françoise Hardy), a French tourist, with whom he decides to take refuge on an island. Still Navarra found and pursues them. Francesco kill him, but in the exchange of gunfire, Anna was fatally wounded by a bullet. Francesco returned to Sicily to take revenge by killing Rizzardi ...

Technical sheet 
 French title: Une balle au cœur
 Greek title: Μια σφαίρα στην καρδιά (Mia sfaira stin kardia)
 Spanish title: Una bala en el corazon
 UK title: A Bullet Through the Heart
 US title: Devil at My Heels
 Screenwriters: Maurice Fabre, Didier Goulard
 Photographer: Alain Levent 
 Sound: Nikos Ahladis 
 Music: Mikis Theodorakis 
 Production designer: Marilena Aravantinou		
 Film editing: Denise de Casabianca
 Producer: Roger Rosen
 Production: CMS - Lambessis Films
 Principal photography: May 24 - July 18, 1965
Countries: Greece (Athens, Skiros, Peloponnese), Italy (Sicily).

Cast 
 Sami Frey as Francesco Montelepre
 Françoise Hardy as Anna
 Jenny Karezi as Carla
 Spýros Fokás as Navarra
 Vasilis Diamantopoulos as Rizzardi
 Lucien Bodard as Marcopoulos

Soundtrack 

EP, Une balle au cœur, Barclay Records (70 960 M), France, 1966.
A 1: "Générique" (Mikis Theodorakis) - 3:00
A 2: "La Balle au cœur" (Mikis Theodorakis) - 1:32
B 1: "Kaimos" (Christodoulou / Mikis Theodorakis / sings by Jenny Karezi) - 2:30
B 2: "Naha dio kheria dio pathia" (Livaditis / Mikis Theodorakis / sings by Jenny Karézi) - 2:58

External links
 

Category:1966 films
Category:Films scored by Mikis Theodorakis
Category:French films