After contributing an episode to "L'An 01 (The Year 01)" (1973), a collective film organised by Jacques Doillon, Resnais made a second collaboration with Jorge Semprun for "Stavisky" (1974), based on the life of the notorious financier and embezzler whose death in 1934 provoked a political scandal. With glamorous costumes and sets, a musical score by Stephen Sondheim, and Jean-Paul Belmondo in the title role, it was seen as Resnais's most commercial film to date, but its complex narrative structure showed clear links with the formal preoccupations of his earlier films.