poster

1982

(04/14/1982) (FR)

Drama,

1h 50m

61

User Score

Overview

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...

1982

61

User Score

(04/14/1982) (FR)

Drama,

1h 50m

Overview

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...

Cast

Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein

Michel Piccoli

Michel Piccoli

Max Baumstein

Helmut Griem

Helmut Griem

Michel Wiener

Dominique Labourier

Dominique Labourier

Charlotte Maupas

Gérard Klein

Gérard Klein

Maurice Bouillard

Mathieu Carrière

Mathieu Carrière

Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo

Wendelin Werner

Wendelin Werner

Young Max Baumstein

Christiane Cohendy

Christiane Cohendy

Helene Nolin

Pierre Michaël

Pierre Michaël

Me Jouffroy

Véronique Silver

Véronique Silver

President of the Court

Maria Schell

Maria Schell

Anna Helwig

Martine de Breteuil

Martine de Breteuil

Philharmonic Teacher