Summary
Jean Dubreuil agrees to help a
friend rob a circus. Jean manages to get the money as planned but
everything goes wrong when his friend badly injures a circus employee
who ran after them. Whilst his friend escapes, Jean is
arrested. Inspectors Muller and Borelli are put in charge of the
case. Jean pretends to be innocent, insisting that his friend is
the sole culprit. Muller tries the soft approach and Borelli the
hard approach to get Jean’s to confess to the robbery and the
assault. The police inspectors insist that a full confession is
the only way that Jean can avoid prison and marry his girlfriend
Catherine. Jean finally agrees to having participated in the
robbery but denies having injured anyone. Muller and Borelli then
decide to get one step further in their attempt to fabricate a
convenient truth...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: Edouard Molinaro
- Script: Georges Arnaud (novel), Jean-François Hauduroy, Edouard Molinaro
- Photo: Raoul Coutard
- Music: Georges Delerue
- Cast: Philippe Noiret (Inspecteur Muller), Roger Hanin (Inspecteur Borelli), Marc Porel (Jean Dubreuil), Caroline Cellier (Catherine), Gérard Landry (Lopez), Léa Nanni (Elsa), Raymond Louzoum (Henri)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 95 min
- Aka: The Most Gentle Confessions
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