Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
Direction
Hossein wrings unbearable tension from silence and stares.
Acting
Johnny Hallyday's doomed vulnerability as Vlad.
Cinematography
Bleached beachscapes that feel like purgatory.
Director
Robert Hossein
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Johnny Hallyday was France's biggest rock star; this was his dramatic breakthrough, proving he could carry existential dread as well as guitar riffs.
Part of a 1970 wave of French crime films interrogating the 'honorable criminal' myth — Hossein strips the genre of all romanticism.
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