La Vérité (Original title)The Truth (Alternative title)
Date: 1960 (Release)Countries: France, ItalyDirector: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Synopsis: Story 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.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Trials (law), Homicide
Date: 1960 (Release)Countries: France, ItalyDirector: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Synopsis: Story 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.
Genre: Drama
Subjects: Trials (law), Homicide
Credits
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Production Company: Iéna, Production Company: C.E.I.A.P., Producer: Raoul J. Lévy, Associate Producer: Roger Debelmas, Unit Manager: Lucien Lippens, Production Manager: Louis Wipf, Production Administration: Georges Valon, Location Manager: Pierre Charron, Location Manager: Roger Volper, [Assistant to Production Manager]: René Fargeas, [In charge of on-set production]: Georges Vallon, [Production Secretary]: Simone Clement, Assistant Director: Claude Clément, Assistant Director: Serge Vallin, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Michel Pezin, Script Girl: Denise Morlot, Script: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Script: Jérome Géronimi, Script: Simone Drieu, Script: Michèle Perrein, Script: Christiane Rochefort, Script: Véra Clouzot, Photography: Armand Thirard, Camera Assistant: Louis Née, Camera Assistant: Robert Florent, Camera Assistant: André Tixador, [Chief Electrician]: Louis Berger, Stills Photography: Paul Apoteker, Editor: Albert Jurgenson, Assistant Editor: Eric Pluet, Assistant Editor: Claude Le Moro, Art Director: Jean André, Assistant Art Director: Robert André, Assistant Art Director: Marc Desages, [Additional Assistant Art Director]: Jean Forestier, Set Decorator: Pierre Charron, Set Decorator: Roger Volper, [Draperies]: Maurice Vigeau, Regine Connar, [In Charge of Equipment]: René Menuset, [Props]: Albert Arnou, Daniel Laguille, [Costumes]: Tanine Autre, [Costume Assistant]: Paulette Ten Haye, [Costume Assistant]: Laurence Clairval, Marinette Chabrol, Make-up: Odette Berroyer, Music: J. Bonal, Music: R. L. Laffaorgue, Music: R. Valentino, Music: G. Gaber-Tengo, 'L'oiseau de feu' by: Igor Stravinsky, Song, 'Yo tengo una muneca' by: J. Tremble, Music Consultant: Gabriel Bouillon, Assistant Music Consultant: Dominique Boegner, [Sound Recordist]: Jean Zann, Sound: W.R. Sivel, Assistant Sound: Arthur van der Meeren, Jean Zann, [Foreword App. for English Lang. Vers.]: Henri-Georges Clouzot, [English Titles for US Version]: Noelle Gilmour, [Publicity Director]: Georges Cravenne
Cast
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Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musi ('L'oiseau de feu' performed by), Brigitte Bardot (Dominique Marceau), Marie-José Nat (Annie Marceau), Sami Frey (Gilbert Tellier), Charles Vanel (Maitre Guérin), Paul Meurisse (M. Eparvier, prosecuting counsel), Jacqueline Porel (Guérin's assistant), Louis Seigner (President of the Court), René Blancard (Attorney General), Jean-Louis Reynolds (Michel Delaunay), André Umansky (Ludovic Toussaint), Fernand Ledoux (court physician), Louis Arbessier (conservatory professor), Claude Berri (Georges), Raymond Meunier (.), Jacques Perrin (Jerome Lamy), Paul Bonifas, Hubert de Lapparent (.), Barbara Sohmers (Daisy), Simone Berthier, Charles Bouillaud, Colette Castel (.), Marcel Delaître (journalist), Germaine Delbat, Arlette Gleize (.), Jacques Hilling (client), Jean Houbé (.), Christian Lude (colonel), Jacques Marin, Colette Régis (.), Jackie Rollin (concierge), Suzy Willy (Madame Marceau)