An Invitation to the Hunt

The story

Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.

Cast & crew

Michèle AlexandreMrs. Bigeard

Henri AttalHubert

Simone Comode

Simone ComodeCatherine

Francis LaxMonitor

Jean MartinMarquis of La Rocherie

Friedrich von LedeburPrince Von Ehrenberg

Margarethe von TrottaPaulette