Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
Acting
Yves Beneyton's escalating panic as the wrong man
Direction
Vidal's casual dread in bourgeois apartments
Writing
Screenplay's cruel coincidence engine
Director
Pascal Vidal
Yves Beneyton
Jacques Fouchet
Christine Pascal
Anne Glizer
Christine Murillo
Odile Fouchet
Bruno Cremer
Claude Raisman
Bernard Fresson
Ballandier
Gérard Lartigau
Sylvain Michel
Micheline Presle
Madame Courdevey
Valérie Quennessen
Jean-Marc Thibault
Armorin
Yves Gabrielli
Marsangy
Guy Tréjean
Maître Trévise
Pascale Christophe
Catherine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during France's 'years of lead' when urban terrorism felt like background radiation; the title's bitter irony lands harder knowing this history.
Christine Pascal co-wrote the screenplay, lending Anne's confusion an autobiographical sharpness rarely seen in male-directed thrillers of the era.
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