31 Aug 2005
The Young Lieutenant
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
A Man Walks in the City
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot. Jean is a lonely man who is attracted to Madeleine but doesn't want to commit himself to the wife of a friend. On the day that Madeleine tells her husband that she is seeing Jean, Laurent goes looking for Jean to find an explanation. Arriving on the docks in the evening, he attacks an American sailor who looks like Jean, but the man fights back and runs away after killing Laurent accidentally. Madeleine thinks that Laurent was killed by Jean and believes that she can start a new life with her lover. The police have other ideas...
Top Billed Cast
Ginette Leclerc Madeleine
Jean-Pierre Kérien Jean Sauviot
Yves Deniaud Albert
Dora Doll Girl
Grégoire Aslan Ambilares
André Valmy Commissioner
Fréhel Buck's wife
Robert Dalban Laurent
Sylvie Deniau Madeleine's sister
Christiane Lénier Georgette
Maryse Paillet 'Tantine'
Fabien Loris Dago
Grégoire Gromoff Olen
Jérôme Goulven Muller
Joé Davray (uncredited)
René Pascal (uncredited)
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