Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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Romy Schneider
Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein
Michel Piccoli
Max Baumstein
Helmut Griem
Michel Wiener
Dominique Labourier
Charlotte Maupas
Gérard Klein
Maurice Bouillard
Mathieu Carrière
Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo
Jacques Martin
Marcel
Wendelin Werner
Young Max Baumstein
Marcel Bozonnet
Mercier
Christiane Cohendy
Helene Nolin
Pierre Michaël
Me Jouffroy
Véronique Silver
President of the Court
Maria Schell
Anna Helwig
Raymond Aquilon
Béatrice Avoine
Jacques Rouffio
Director
Jacques Kirsner
Screenplay
Jacques Rouffio
Screenplay
Joseph Kessel
Novel
Jean Kerchner
Executive Producer
Ralph Baum
Executive Producer
Artur Brauner
Producer
Raymond Danon
Producer
Jean Penzer
Director of Photography
Georges Delerue
Original Music Composer
Anna Ruiz
Editor
Catherine Leterrier
Costume Design
Elisabeth Tavernier
Costume Design
Jean-Jacques Caziot
Production Design
Hans Jürgen Kiebach
Production Design
