Three dying words, one dead agent, zero patience for your weekend plans.
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
Cinematography
Provence locations shot like the sun itself is guilty.
Acting
Frank Villard's thousand-yard stare deserves its own pension.
Director
Jean Stelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Second Bureau was France's real military intelligence service, notoriously involved in colonial conflicts — this film's arms dealer plot quietly nods to actual state-sanctioned violence in North Africa.
Barbara Laage was blacklisted from Hollywood during the Red Scare and rebuilt her career in Europe; her mysterious femme presence here carries that real-world exile energy.
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