Martin Scorsese, in discussing with Spike Lee the films that influenced O Irlandês (2019), says he screened Técnica de um Delator (1962) with O Irlandês (2019) cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto. "The tone of [O Irlandês (2019)], it had to be contemplative and an epic, but it had to be an intimate epic," he said. "I showed a couple of Jean-Pierre Melville films, Técnica de um Delator (1962) and Os Profissionais do Crime (1966), with Jean-Paul Belmondo, both of those pictures [mistake: Jean-Paul Belmondo doesn't plays in Second Wind (1966)!] . It's a very different world, but I liked the understatement of it."
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #447.