The Nonentity (1986)
Overview
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
Cast
Fanny Ardant
Mlle Lotte
Daniel Auteuil
le journaliste
Richard Bohringer
le docteur
Philippe Léotard
Kaufmann
Jeanne Moreau
Barbesitzerin
Michel Piccoli
der Tölpel
Claude Piéplu
Professor
Jean Yanne
Kommissar
Thuy An Luu
Sidy Lamine Diarra
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