Synopsis
One 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...
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Director (1)
Actors (17)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : mk2 films
- Co-production : France 3 Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Prokino Filmverleih, Olga Film, ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Marin Karmitz
- Screenwriters : Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff
- Director of Photography : Bernard Zitzermann
- Music Composer : Matthieu Chabrol
- Assistant directors : Cécile Maistre, Anne Perron
- Editor : Monique Fardoulis
- Sound recordists : Jean-Bernard Thomasson, Claude Villand
- Costume designer : Corinne Jorry
- Author of original work : Ruth Rendell
- Assistant Operator : Fabienne Delaleau
- Camera Operator : Michel Thiriet
- Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Assistant editors : Florence Poulain, Olivier Rossignol
- Continuity supervisor : Aurore Chabrol
- Production Designer : Daniel Mercier
- Foley artists : André Naudin, Gadou Naudin
- Still Photographer : Jérémie Nassif
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Murder
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Germany, France
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Awards (3)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 1996
César Award for Best Actress : Isabelle Huppert