La Ville des silences

La Ville des silences

100 mins | Nov. 14, 1979

Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed. The victim is the founding ancestor of this small empire that has outgrown one man. In Creuzeville, we hardly like foreigners, especially if they are vegetarians, perhaps homosexuals, undoubtedly anarchists like, precisely, this detective. However the detective by whom the scandal broke broke the silence of the city by going to the heart of family secrets hitherto well hidden behind purple shutters. The murders follow one another. We strike on the left - a young ecologist - as on the right - a cynical playboy. Continuing to dissect the mobiles and the characters, the detective dropped the masks one by one. And, little by little, fear and violence are settling in the small town.

La Ville des silences

100 mins | Nov. 14, 1979

La Ville des silences
Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed. The victim is the founding ancestor of this small empire that has outgrown one man. In Creuzeville, we hardly like foreigners, especially if they are vegetarians, perhaps homosexuals, undoubtedly anarchists like, precisely, this detective. However the detective by whom the scandal broke broke the silence of the city by going to the heart of family secrets hitherto well hidden behind purple shutters. The murders follow one another. We strike on the left - a young ecologist - as on the right - a cynical playboy. Continuing to dissect the mobiles and the characters, the detective dropped the masks one by one. And, little by little, fear and violence are settling in the small town.
Producers Babylone Films
Original title La Ville des silences
Directors Jean Marboeuf
Writers Jean Marboeuf

Cast

Jean-Pierre Cassel

as Le privé

Michel Galabru

as Nathan Farijacque

Michel Duchaussoy

as François Lestin

Denis Manuel

as Le directeur du Casino

Claire Maurier

as Muriel

Michèle Simonnet

as Véra, la femme de François

Amélie Prévost

as Julie, la fille de Nathan

Vincent Gauthier

as Thomas, le fils de Nathan