The Most Gentle Confessions
5.5
A sunny seaside town... Jean and Catherine are in love. They are young, beautiful, and poor. One of Jean's friends suggests he rob the cash box of a traveling circus. But the plan goes wrong: a circus employee is seriously injured, and Jean is arrested. He chooses to proclaim his innocence. To force him to confess and denounce his accomplice, the two detectives in charge of the investigation devise a Machiavellian plan...
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Cast
24 people
Philippe Noiret
Inspecteur Muller
Known for
Cinema Paradiso
The Postman
Roger Hanin
Inspecteur Borelli
Known for
Breathless
The Big Pardon
Édouard Molinaro
Georges Delerue
Georges Arnaud
Maccabi Attas
Caroline Cellier
Catherine
Known for
Didier
This Man Must Die
Christine Gouze-Rénal
Also in
The Light Across the Street
It Happened All Night
Raoul Coutard
Jean-François Hauduroy
Marc Porel
Jean Dubreuil
Known for
The Psychic
Don't Torture a Duckling
Ahmed Rachedi
Édouard Molinaro Director · Jean-François Hauduroy Screenplay Georges Arnaud Author
First release May 19, 1971 · Produced in Algeria, France, Italy · Production Trianon Films, Office des Actualités Algériennes
Production
Progéfi
Production
Trianon Films
Production
Office des Actualités Algériennes
Production
Ultra Film
Production
Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC)
Production
O.N.C.I.C.
Production
Progefi
Production
Algeria · France · Italy
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Languages
Original title
Les Aveux les plus doux
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · May 19, 1971
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
February 16, 1979
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