
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Cast

Annie Girardot
Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret
Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric
Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps
Charmille

Paulette Dubost
Mother

Roger Dumas
Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme
Head of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand
Beretti

Simone Renant
Suzanne

Georges Wilson
Alexandre Mignonac

Monique Tarbès
Bathroom attendant

Henri Czarniak
L'inspecteur Cascard

Maurice Illouz
L'inspecteur Picot

Georges Riquier
Professeur Pelletier

David Gabison
Le doyen Levergue

Gabriel Jabbour
Medical examiner
Armelle Pourriche
Little Catherine

Michel Rocher
Le laborantin

Jacques Boudet
L'homme élégant

Anna Gaylor
Antoine's concierge

Jacques Frantz
L'inspecteur Verdier

Francis Lemaire
Antonio, Le coiffeur

Jacqueline Doyen
Madame Melun

Roger Muni
Tailor
Sarah Sterling
Berthe

Michel Audiard
Le mainate (voice)
Gilbert Richard
Le speaker

Bernard Spiegel
Un journaliste

Colette Duval
La pharmacienne

Jean-Pierre Rambal
Waiter
Guy Anthony
Monsieur de Grandville

Guy Di Rigo
Maurice Rombard
Crew

Philippe de Broca
Director, Adaptation

Jean-Paul Rouland
Writer, Novel

Michel Audiard
Writer, Producer
Claude Olivier
Novel
Françoise Javet
Editor

Jean-Paul Schwartz
Cinematography

Georges Dancigers
Producer

Alexandre Mnouchkine
Producer
Robert Amon
Producer

Catherine Leterrier
Costume Design
Bernard Bats
Sound

Georges Delerue
Original Music Composer

François de Lamothe
Art Direction
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