Violette Nozière
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Violette Nozière | |
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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.
[edit] Plot
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.
[edit] Cast
- Isabelle Huppert - Violette Noziere
- Jean Carmet - Baptiste Noziere
- Stéphane Audran - Germaine Noziere
- Jean-Francois Garreaud - Jean Dabin
- Zoe Chauveau - Zoe the Maid
- Jean-Pierre Coffe - Dr. Deron
- Jean Dalmain - Mr. Emile
- Guy Hoffman - the Judge
- Henri-Jacques Huet - Commissioner Guilleaume
- Bernadette Lafont - Violette's Cellmate
- Bernard Lajarrige - Andre De Pinguet
- Lisa Langlois - Maddy
- Fabrice Luchini - Camus
- Dominique Zardi - Boy in Cafe