An ambitious Judge and an exacting Colonel re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard, an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews. Now an old man living a sheltered life within the Catholic Church, Brossard is also being trailed by mysterious hit men, determined to kill him before he's arrested.
Acting
Caine's trembling villainy—repulsive yet weirdly pitiable.
Direction
Jewison's patient, almost documentary-like pursuit of truth.
Cinematography
Bleached French countryside hiding decades of buried shame.
Director
Norman Jewison
Michael Caine
Pierre Brossard
Tilda Swinton
Annemarie Livi
Jeremy Northam
Colonel Roux
Alan Bates
Armand Bertier
Charlotte Rampling
Nicole
John Neville
Old Man
Ciarán Hinds
Pochon
Frank Finlay
Commissaire Vionnet
William Hutt
Le Moyne
Matt Craven
David Manenbaum
Noam Jenkins
Michael Levy
Peter Wight
Inspector Cholet
Malcolm Sinclair
Cardinal of Lyon
Colin Salmon
Father Patrice
David de Keyser
Dom André (as David De Keyser)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the true case of Paul Touvier, the first Frenchman convicted of crimes against humanity in 1994—he hid in Catholic monasteries for decades.
Caine insisted on playing Brossard without prosthetics, letting age makeup and performance carry sixty years of guilt.
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