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 as Mlle Lotte
- Daniel Auteuil as le journaliste
- Richard Bohringer as le docteur
- Philippe Léotard as Kaufmann
- Jeanne Moreau as Barbesitzerin
- Michel Piccoli as der Tölpel
- Claude Piéplu as Professor
- Jean Yanne as Kommissar
- Thuy An Luu
- Sidy Lamine Diarra