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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...
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Release Date
- April 14, 1982
- Languages
- French
- Director
- Production
- Production Countries
- France, Germany
Cast

Romy Schneider
Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein

Michel Piccoli
Max Baumstein

Helmut Griem
Michel Wiener

Dominique Labourier
Charlotte Maupas

Gérard Klein
Maurice Bouillard

Mathieu Carrière
Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo

Jacques Martin
Marcel

Wendelin Werner
Young Max Baumstein

Marcel Bozonnet
Mercier

Christiane Cohendy
Helene Nolin