The Nonentity (1986)
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
Writer:
Michel Deville
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Fanny Ardant as Mlle Lotte |
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Daniel Auteuil as le journaliste |
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Richard Bohringer as le docteur |
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Philippe Léotard as Kaufmann |
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Jeanne Moreau as Barbesitzerin |
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Michel Piccoli as der Tölpel |
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Claude Piéplu as Professor |
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Jean Yanne as Kommissar |
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Thuy An Luu as |
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Sidy Lamine Diarra as |
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Gérard Essomba as |
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Gérard Dubois as |
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Henri Bensoussan as |
| Directing | Michel Deville | Director |
| Writing | Franz-Rudolf Falk | Screenstory |
| Writing | Michel Deville | Screenplay |
| Production | Rosalinde Deville | Producer |
| Sound | Claude Villand | Sound Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cécile Balme | Costume Design |
| Camera | André Diot | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ronaldo Ribeiro De Abre | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Thierry Leproust | Production Design |
| Sound | Philippe Lioret | Sound Designer |
| Art | Wersch-Cot | Art Direction |
| Art | Ysabelle Van | Art Direction |
| Editing | Raymonde Guyot | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Laurence Azouvy | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Pierre Berroyer | Hairstylist |