
90 minutes
3/20/1942
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.

Noël-Noël
as Surgeon

Lucien Baroux
as Louis Drotort, painter

André Luguet
as Lawyer

Arletty
as Simone, actress tenant

Bernard Blier
as Funeral home employee

Raymond Rouleau
as Claude Ferval, dramatic author

Jean Tissier
as Hubert Barnabé, theater director

Mireille Balin
as Claude's wife

René Lefèvre
as Georges, industrialist's son

Michèle Alfa
as Michèle Fabreuse, sculptor

Raymond Aimos
as Gladiator model

René Bergeron
as Concierge
Simone Berriau
as The 'widow' of the painter

Renée Devillers
as Jeanne, secretary

Maurice Escande
as Gaëtan

Charles Granval
as Industrial

Pierre Magnier
as Uncle
Raymond Segard
as Nephew
Marcel Vallée
as Critic

Alfred Adam
as Charles, authorized signatory

Paul Faivre
as Panouille, clerk

Jacqueline Gauthier
as Rose, Simone's maid
Pierre Jourdan
as Claude's friend
Missia
as Cleaning lady

Paul Demange
as Hairdresser (uncredited)

Geneviève Morel
as Flowergirl (uncredited)

Maurice Salabert
as (uncredited)
Georgette Tissier
as Painter's maid (uncredited)

Eugène Yvernès
as (uncredited)