Short Memory (1982)

5.3/10 102 min Thriller Drama

Overview

In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.

Cast

Nathalie Baye

Judith Mesnil

Philippe Léotard

Frank Barila

Bulle Ogier

Geneviève Derhode

Jacques Rivette

Marcel Jaucourt

Hermine Karagheuz

Irene Jaucourt

Xavier Saint-Macary

Le mari de Judith

Adrian Brine

Monsieur Mann

Benoît Jacquot

Le secrétaire de Monsieur Mann

Claire Wauthion

Madame Mann

Martine Simonet

L'assistante aux Ballets Roses

Elisabeth Kaza

Madame Toth

Claude Ollier

Le père de Frank

Barbet Schroeder

Un invité au dîner

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