Short Memory

Short Memory

102 mins | Drama, Thriller | Sept. 30, 1979

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.

Short Memory

102 mins | Drama, Thriller | Sept. 30, 1979

Short Memory
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers
Original title La Mémoire courte
Directors Eduardo de Gregorio
Writers Eduardo de Gregorio, Edgardo Cozarinsky

Cast

Nathalie Baye

as Judith Mesnil

Philippe Léotard

as Frank Barila

Bulle Ogier

as Geneviève Derhode

Jacques Rivette

as Marcel Jaucourt

Hermine Karagheuz

as Irene Jaucourt

Eduardo Manet

as General San Juan

Xavier Saint-Macary

as Le mari de Judith

Adrian Brine

as Monsieur Mann

Benoît Jacquot

as Le secrétaire de Monsieur Mann

Claire Wauthion

as Madame Mann

Elisabeth Kaza

as Madame Toth