

One of them is the next victim. One is the killer. We challenge you to guess who.
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
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Grave, classical in form, earnest and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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Cast
- Jean-Louis TrintignantStéphane Carella
- Dominique SandaSandra Forest
- Sacha DistelJulien Sabirnou
- Carla GravinaJocelyne Rocca
- Paul CrauchetFrancis Palombo
- Laura AntonelliJuliette Vaudreuil
- Michel BardinetTony Forest
- Jean-Pierre MariellePerry Rupert-Foote
- Stéphane AudranHélène Vallée
- Gilles SégalDi Bozzo
Crew
- Philippe LabroDirector
- Philippe LabroScreenplay
- Jacques LanzmannScreenplay
- Vincenzo LabellaScreenplay
- Evan HunterNovel
- Jean PenzerDirector of Photography
- Ennio MorriconeOriginal Music Composer
- Claude BarroisEditor
- Nicole SaunierEditor
- Jacques-Eric StraussProducer
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