Product Details

• Actors: Yves Montand; Pierre Vernier; Michel Etc
• Directors: Henri Verneuil
• Format: Dolby, NTSC
• Language: French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Roissy
• DVD Release Date: March 20, 2007
• Run Time: 125 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MQ5534
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #57,498 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Un an apres l'assassinat du president Jarry, la Haute Cour, composee des plus hauts magistrats, rend son verdict: elle conclut que l'assassin etait seul et que c'etait l'oeuvre d'un desequilibre. Mais le procureur Henri Volney (Yves Montand) s'insurge contre cette decision et refuse categoriquement de signer le rapport d'enquete.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, July 30, 2008

By	Daniel Dzierzgowski "Daniel Dzierzgowski" (Belgium) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Classical French thriller. Nothing more to add to what has already been written in the other comments.

À noter tout de même: ce DVD est maintenant introuvable en Europe. La version vendue ici vient du Canada et elle est "Region free" (autrement dit: lisible sur n'importe quel lecteur de salon européen) et non pas Region 1 comme annoncé par Amazon.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great French thriller, January 17, 2008

By	Denisruc (Seattle, Wa) - See all my reviews

Yves Montand plays a prosecutor who is in charge of investigating the assassination of the president. What looked at first glance like the work of a lone madman soon turns out to be much more.


This movie is very well written. It is a work of fiction but it is also very much inspired by the death of President Kennedy. The plot is full of twists and turns while remaining plausible and logical.


Yves Montand was one of the best actors of his generation and gave one of his trademark performances.


The movie was entirely filmed in France yet has an American flair to it. It was mostly shot in suburban Paris. Outdoor locations feature high rise towers and modern architecture, as opposed to the typical villages and historical monuments often seen in French movies.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I comme Icare - a great, smart, political movie, October 21, 2007

By	B. Bruce "Movie watcher" (Paris, France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This movie, long before Oliver Stone's JFK, tells the story of an investigation, the investigation of a president being murdered the JFK way.
Yves Montand is a DA utterly commited to his job(he's the Jim Garrisson of this movie).
Telling more about this movie would already be too much...watch it ! (and then, watch it again !)