Released:
1986-08-13

Overview:
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…

Director:
Michel Deville

Runtime:
1h 32min

Genre:
Crime, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Fanny Ardant
  as
  Mlle Lotte
• 
  Daniel Auteuil
  as
  le journaliste
• 
  Richard Bohringer
  as
  le docteur
• 
  Philippe Léotard
  as
  Kaufmann
• 
  Jeanne Moreau
  as
  Barbesitzerin