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The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.Read moreLess
The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.
The story
The action takes place in a typical French town in the early sixties, at the end of the Algerian war. In a fit of criminal madness, a married, affluent and respected town-citizen named Gregoire Duval kills a young woman who spurns his advances. As no one witnesses him committing this crime, he chooses to remain silent while the girl's boyfriend, a young Algerian farm worker, is wrongly convicted. In a strange twist of fate, the killer becomes one of the jurors of the trial and suddenly does everything in his power to defend the wrongly accused young man.
Cast & crew
Jean-Pierre DarroussinGrégoire Duval
Isabelle HabiagueGeneviève Duval
Pascal ElsoCapitaine Valard
Igor MendjiskyLaurent Duval
Éric NaggarLe juge Hoppenot
Jean-Yves ChatelaisLaboryExplore the crew
- Director
- Édouard Niermans
- Writer
- Francis Didelot
- Writer
- Didier Le Pêcheur
- Producer
- Laurent Ceccaldi
- Producer
- Christian Charret
- Original Music Composer
- Bruno Coulais
- Director of Photography
- François Lartigue
- Editor
- Jeanne Kef