
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...
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the César Award for Best Actress (1983)
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Based on
Based on La passante du Sans-Souci
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Setting
Set in Paris
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Music
Music by Georges Delerue
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Jean Penzer
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jacques RouffioScreenplay
- Jacques KirsnerScreenplay
- Joseph KesselNovel
- Original title
- La Passante du Sans-Souci
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 14, 1982
- Original language
- French
- Countries
- France, Germany







































