Violette Nozière

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Violette Nozière
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Produced by Claude Léger
Roger Morand
Written by Odile Barski
Hervé Bromberger
Starring Isabelle Huppert
Stéphane Audran
Jean Carmet
Jean-François Garreaud
Guy Hoffman
Music by Pierre Jansen
Cinematography Jean Rabier
Editing by Yves Langlois
Distributed by Koch-Lorber Films
Release date(s) May 20, 1978 (France)
Running time 124 min.
Language French language
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Violette Nozière is a 1978 French film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1934, about a fourteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men.

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Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet
Isabelle Huppert and Jean Carmet

Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) has permanent man acquaintance and infects itself with syphilis. Moreover it increases the household cash register of its parents that suspect, that violet works as a prostitute. She plots her parent's death out, by poisoning father Baptiste Noziere (Jean Carmet) with powder. Yet mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran) survives. After the crime, Violette insists that her father molested her.

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