A King Without Distraction ( 1963 )

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Claude Giraud

le capitaine Langlois

Colette Renard

Clara

Charles Vanel

le procureur du roi

Albert Rémy

le maire

René Blancard

le curé

Pierre Repp

Ravanel