Cast
Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Grégoire Duval)Isabelle Habiague (Geneviève Duval)Pascal Elso (Commissaire Valard)Igor Mendjisky (Laurent Duval)Éric Naggar (Juge Hoppenot)Lahcen Razzougui (Khader Boualam)Jean-Yves Chatelais (Labory)Jacques Bachelier (L'avocat général)Philippe Couerre (Docteur Marmont)Yvon Wust (Etienne Langeron)Jean-Paul Bonnaire (Jacques Perruchet)Hubert Saint-Macary (Docteur Hesse)Laurent Manzoni (Marthouret)Olivier Piechaczyk (Rembert)Lucy Flamant (Marianne Courtry)Alain Moussay (Monsieur Courtry)Tobias Kempf (Juré 1)Dominique Jacquot (Juré 2)
Director
Edouard Niermans
Synopsis
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.
