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Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...Read moreLess
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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Romy SchneiderElsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein
Michel PiccoliMax Baumstein
Helmut GriemMichel Wiener
Dominique LabourierCharlotte Maupas
Gérard KleinMaurice Bouillard
Mathieu CarrièreRuppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo
Jacques MartinMarcel
Wendelin WernerYoung Max Baumstein
Marcel BozonnetMercier
Christiane CohendyHelene Nolin
Véronique SilverPresident of the CourtExplore the crew
- Producer
- Raymond Danon
- Director of Photography
- Jean Penzer
- Original Music Composer
- Georges Delerue
- Producer
- Artur Brauner
- Director
- Jacques Rouffio
- Screenplay
- Jacques Rouffio
- Editor
- Anna Ruiz
- Screenplay
- Jacques Kirsner