The Nonentity
Le Paltoquet
Watch the nonentity soap2day. Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
- Genre: Crime, Drama
- Country: France
- Director: Michel Deville
- Cast: Fanny Ardant, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer, Philippe Léotard, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu, Jean Yanne, Thuy An Luu, Sidy Lamine Diarra, Gérard Essomba, Gérard Dubois, Henri Bensoussan,