In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
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Cast
34 people
Nathalie Baye
Judith Mesnil
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Philippe Léotard
Frank Barila
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Geneviève Derhode
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Xavier Saint-Macary
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Hermine Karagheuz
Irene Jaucourt
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Jacques Rivette
Marcel Jaucourt
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Claire Wauthion
Madame Mann
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Adrian Brine
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Elisabeth Kaza
Madame Toth
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Charles Marosi
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Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville
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Eduardo de Gregorio Director · Edgardo Cozarinsky Writer Michel Portal Composer
United States release September 30, 1979 · Produced in France · Production Paradise Films
Production
Unité Trois
Production
Paradise Films
Production
France
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Original title
La Mémoire courte
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · May 19, 1979
Premiere · Cannes Directors' Fortnight
United States · September 30, 1979
Premiere · New York Film Festival
France · March 3, 1982
Theatrical
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