Le Juge et l'assassin = The judge & the assassin / Lira Films ; Raymond Danon présente ; un film de Bertrand Tavernier ; screenplay by Tavernier and Jean Aurenche.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Tavernier, Bertrand, director, screenwriter.

Aurenche, Jean, screenwriter.

Noiret, Philippe, actor.

Huppert, Isabelle, actor.

Galabru, Michel, actor.

Lira Films, producer.

Connoisseur Video Collection (Firm), distributor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Vacher, Joseph, 1869-1898--Drama.

Vacher, Joseph.

Fourquet, Emile.

Vacher, Joseph, 1869-1898.

Criminals--France--Biography--Drama.

Criminals.

Dangerously mentally ill.

France.

Judges--France--Biography--Drama.

Judges.

Murder--Drama.

Murder.

Dangerously mentally ill--Drama.

Genre:

Biographies.

Drama.

Feature films.

Film noir.

Motion pictures, French.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (130 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

polychrome

Other Title:

Judge & the assassin

Judge and the assassin

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : Connoisseur Video Collection, [1990]

Language Note:

In French with English subtitles.

System Details:

VHS; Hi-fi; Mono.

analog

magnetic

mono

VHS

Summary:

"During the hysteria of the Dreyfus Affair, a mad former soldier terrorizes the French countryside, murdering young boy and girl shepherds. An upright, ambitious judge realizes after a series of remarkable confrontations that the killer is insane but hypocritically finds him lucid so he can be executed for political advantage"--container.

Participant:

Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Galabru.

Credits:

Photography, Pierre-Wilhelm Glenn; music, Philippe Sarde.

Notes:

Videocassette release of the 1976 motion picture.

Based on the career, trial and execution of Joseph Vacher, at whose trial the judge was Émile Fourquet.

OCLC:

22147099

Publisher Number:

045922110390

CVC-1039 Connoisseur Video Collection