A nobody gets pulled into a conspiracy so dry it circles back to fascinating.
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
Acting
Henri Garcin's crumbling everyman is devastatingly ordinary.
Direction
Mitrani turns fluorescent office lighting into psychological torture.
Director
Michel Mitrani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during a wave of French films interrogating post-68 disillusionment through genre trappings. The 'Bulgarian' threat plays on Western European xenophobia toward Eastern Bloc opacity.
Mitrani largely abandoned fiction filmmaking after this, pivoting to documentary—reportedly frustrated that audiences missed the political critique beneath the thriller surface.
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