Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
Romy Schneider
Michel Piccoli
Helmut Griem
Dominique Labourier
Gérard Klein
Mathieu Carrière
Jacques Martin
Wendelin Werner
Marcel Bozonnet
Christiane Cohendy
Pierre Michaël
Véronique Silver
Maria Schell
Raymond Aquilon
Béatrice Avoine
Martine de Breteuil
Arnaud Carbonnier
Patricia Cartier
André Chaumeau
Alain MacMoy
Stephan Meldegg
Jacques Nolot
Pierre Pernet
Jean Reno