A King Without Distraction

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Country:

France

Genre:

Drama,

Crime

Duration:

85 minutes

Year:

1963

Director:

François Leterrier

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Company:

Les Films Jean Giono

Cast:

le capitaine Langlois

Clara

le procureur du roi

le maire

le curé

Crew:

Director

Writer

Music

Editor

Original Music Composer