A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.
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Cast
- Claude Giraudle capitaine Langlois
- Colette RenardClara
- Charles Vanelle procureur du roi
- Albert Rémyle maire
- René Blancardle curé
- Pierre ReppRavanel
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- François LeterrierDirector
- Jean GionoWriter
- Jean GionoNovel
- Jean BadalDirector of Photography
- Maurice JarreOriginal Music Composer
- Françoise JavetEditor
- Jean GionoProducer
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