A translator cracks dead Nazis' travel plans—and falls for the wrong guy in the chaos.
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
Acting
Nathalie Baye's jittery intelligence—she's thinking faster than the script.
Direction
De Gregorio's Rivette-adjacent longueurs that somehow still grip.
Director
Eduardo de Gregorio
Nathalie Baye
Judith Mesnil
Philippe Léotard
Frank Barila
Bulle Ogier
Geneviève Derhode
Jacques Rivette
Marcel Jaucourt
Hermine Karagheuz
Irene Jaucourt
Xavier Saint-Macary
Le mari de Judith
Adrian Brine
Monsieur Mann
Benoît Jacquot
Le secrétaire de Monsieur Mann
Claire Wauthion
Madame Mann
Martine Simonet
L'assistante aux Ballets Roses
Elisabeth Kaza
Madame Toth
Claude Ollier
Le père de Frank
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's reckoning with Vichy collaboration; the dead writer's hidden papers mirror real suppressed histories.
Jacques Rivette appears as Marcel—yes, THAT Rivette, the legendary director, slumming it in front of the camera for once.
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