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La Denonciation
Year
1961
Language
FRENCH (ENGLISH subtitles)
Duration
1h 12m
Rating
NR
CC
Performers
Maurice Ronet, Françoise Brion, Nicole Berger, Sacha Pitoëff
Directed By
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Publication Information
Icarus Films
Summary
An innocent man, a dark bar, a body already on the floor, a brawl - what happened? And who's innocent, anyway? Jacques Doniol-Valcroze's game-playing mystery begins with a simple police investigation, but gradually, almost casually, it sprawls like a spider's web to encompass the past as the French lived it, as combatants or collaboraters or both, during WWII. The stranger in the dark nightclub is Michel (Maurice Ronet), a successful film producer with a beautiful and frivolous wife (Francoise Brion), and little reason, it seems, to be worried about being interrogated about a murder he didn't commit. But when threatening letters start coming, Michel begins to suspect that a wartime secret, from his days as a Resistance fighter, will somehow rise to the surface.