

105 minutes
1/18/1978
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.

Annie Girardot
as Lise Tanquerelle

Philippe Noiret
as Antoine Lemercier

Catherine Alric
as Christine Vallier

Hubert Deschamps
as Charmille

Paulette Dubost
as Mother

Roger Dumas
as Marcel Guérin, l'inspecteur

Raymond Gérôme
as Head of Criminal Division

Guy Marchand
as Beretti

Simone Renant
as Suzanne

Georges Wilson
as Alexandre Mignonac

Monique Tarbès
as Bathroom attendant

Henri Czarniak
as L'inspecteur Cascard

Maurice Illouz
as L'inspecteur Picot

Georges Riquier
as Professeur Pelletier

David Gabison
as Le doyen Levergue

Gabriel Jabbour
as Medical examiner
Armelle Pourriche
as Little Catherine

Michel Rocher
as Le laborantin

Jacques Boudet
as L'homme élégant

Anna Gaylor
as Antoine's concierge

Jacques Frantz
as L'inspecteur Verdier

Francis Lemaire
as Antonio, Le coiffeur

Jacqueline Doyen
as Madame Melun

Roger Muni
as Tailor
Sarah Sterling
as Berthe

Michel Audiard
as Le mainate (voice)
Gilbert Richard
as Le speaker

Bernard Spiegel
as Un journaliste

Colette Duval
as La pharmacienne

Jean-Pierre Rambal
as Waiter
Guy Anthony
as Monsieur de Grandville

Guy Di Rigo
as Maurice Rombard