Film Synopsis
Here are three stories which reveal what a dangerous place the imagination
can be if it is allowed to get so much as a foothold on reality. In
the early years of the twentieth century, an ageing theatrical is holding
court in a little provincial café, regaling all who want to hear,
as well as those who don't, with lurid accounts of his past stage triumphs.
It is with an ardent relish bordering on fanaticism that he decries the appalling
decline of the histrionic art in recent years. Stage drama is definitely
not what it used to be! The actor's acerbic tirade is silenced when
a former acquaintance of his shows up and reveals to all and sundry that
he is nothing but a third rate ham.
In the second tale, two women find themselves alone in a remote house in
the country. As night falls, they sense that something is terribly
wrong and gradually they allow themselves to be taken over by blind terror.
Little do they suspect that the husband of one of the women has murder on
his mind. He plans to carry out his dreadful scheme with the aid of
a new-fangled device called the telephone. In tale number three, two
reporters are in conversation with a psychiatrist who is more than pleased
to expatiate on the revolutionary methods he employs in his modern clinic.
The journalists are as yet totally unaware that the lunatics have taken over
the asylum...
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Film Credits
- Director: Noël Herpe
- Script: Noël Herpe,
Georges Courteline (play),
André de Lorde (play)
- Cinematographer: Laurent Coltelloni,
Nils Warolin,
Pierre Warolin
- Music: François Regis
- Cast: Paul Chassaing,
Vincent Chenille,
Arthur Dreyfus,
Cyril Duret,
Michelle Herpe-Voslinsky,
Noël Herpe,
Emilie Janvier,
Thibaud Jara-Ureta,
Alain Keit,
Elise Lacroix,
Christophe Nivelle,
Nils Ramme
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Support: Color
- Runtime: 77 min