La Cérémonie / A Judgment in StoneDirected by Claude Chabrol Produced by mk2 Genres : Fiction - Runtime : 1 h 51 min French release : 30/08/1995 Production year : 1995
DirectorActorsSynopsisOne winter morning at St Malo station, Madame Lelièvre comes to collect Sophie, the perfect new housekeeper that she has just hired. The girl is more than satisfactory and works hard. Is it her lack of emotion that makes her so strange ? Jeanne, the village post-mistress, curious and uninhibited, sees Sophie as the ideal opportunity to get inside the Lelièvre home. The young women's carefully hidden secrets bring them together. What secrets and for what alliance ? The Lelièvre family investigates without realizing and without wanting to... Production and distributionAssociate production company : mk2 Co-production : France 3 Cinéma Foreign production company : Prokino, Olga Film, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Film export/Foreign Sales : mk2 French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full creditsExecutive Producer : Marin Karmitz Assistant Directors : Cécile Maistre, Anne Perron Author of original work : Ruth Rendell Screenwriters : Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann Sound Recordists : Jean-Bernard Thomasson, Claude Villand Assistant Operator : Fabienne Delaleau Camera Operator : Michel Thiriet Production Manager : Yvon Crenn Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet Editor : Monique Fardoulis Assistant Editors : Florence Poulain, Olivier Rossignol Continuity supervisor : Aurore Chabrol Production Designer : Daniel Mercier Music Composer : Matthieu Chabrol Foley Artists : André Naudin, Gadou Naudin Costume Designer : Corinne Jorry Still Photographer : Jérémie Nassif
Technical detailsFeature film Genres : Fiction Sub-genre : Drama Themes : Murder Production language : French Nationality : Majority French (Germany, France) Production year : 1995 French release : 30/08/1995 Runtime : 1 h 51 min Current status : Released Visa number : 86.464 Visa issue date : 22/08/1995 Approval : Yes Production formats :
35mm Screening format :
35mm Color type : Color Aspect ratio : 1.66 Sound format : Dolby Digital
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