01 Jan 1982
Praying Mantis
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
End of Desire
A one-man woman...and a man of many loves...then...the...
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
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Maria Schell Jeanne Dandieu
Christian Marquand Julien de Lamare
Pascale Petit Rosalie
Louis Arbessier Monsieur Dandieu
Marie-Hélène Dasté Madame Dandieu
Antonella Lualdi Gilberte
Ivan Desny De Fourcheville
Gérard Darrieu Un pêcheur
Michel Slubicki Paul de Lamare
Andrée Tainsy Ludivine - la servante
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