- BFI identifier50171
- Date1960 (Release)
- Production countryFrance, Italy
- Production company
- SynopsisStory of a young French provincial girl who, as a result of a series of unfortunate circumstances dating from her early childhood, finds herself involved in a murder charge in Paris. (Synopsis) Bardot gives one of her very finest performances as a young woman on trialfor murder; flashbacks from the hearing chart her progress from a stifling bourgeois family to the sexier world of a Left Bank populated by a disaffected youth the French legal system barely comprehends. The courtroom scenes display the attorneys' lack of interest in the truth, while Clouzot's survey of a Paris divided against itself according to fixed social strata was incisive and, perhaps, prescient. (Synopsis)
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- CategoryFiction
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- Credits
- CastConservatoire National Supérieur de Musi ('L'oiseau de feu' performed by)
Brigitte Bardot (Dominique Marceau)
Marie-José Nat (Annie Marceau)
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Title
La Vérité (Original)
The Truth (Alternative)
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Work - 50171 - 1960 (Release)
France - Film - Fiction
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