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A King Without Distraction

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A King Without Distraction

7.8

1h 25m

1963

Synopsis

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Director

François Leterrier

DramaCrime

Cast & Crew

Claude Giraud

Claude Giraud

as le capitaine Langlois

Colette Renard

Colette Renard

as Clara

Charles Vanel

Charles Vanel

as le procureur du roi

Albert Rémy

as le maire

René Blancard

René Blancard

as le curé

Pierre Repp

Pierre Repp

as Ravanel

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