The Widow Couderc
Synopsis
La veuve Couderc (Signoret) is a farmer who takes in a handsome young drifter, Jean (Alain Delon), who turns out to be recently released from prison. Jean does odd jobs for the woman, who lives with her elderly father-in-law, Henri (Jean Tissier), who pretends to be deaf when it suits him, and surreptitiously has an intimate relationship with Couderc. It's Henri's house, and when Jean moves in, it gives the widow's resentful sister-in-law, Françoise (Monique Chaumette), the excuse she's looking for to get Henri to leave the house so she can sell it. The widow and Jean have a modest dream of using an incubator to raise chicks and make a decent living, but their plans are further complicated when Françoise's promiscuous teenaged daughter, Félicie (Ottavia Piccolo) comes around with her infant son. Félicie clearly has eyes for Jean, and to the consternation of the widow, who holds his fate in her hands, Jean has trouble resisting the younger woman's charms...
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Lira Films
- Foreign production company : Pegaso Cinematografica
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Compagnie Française de Distribution Cinématographique (CFDC)
Full credits (20)
- Adaptation : Pierre Granier-Deferre, Pascal Jardin
- Dialogue Writer : Pascal Jardin
- Director of Photography : Walter Wottitz
- Music Composer : Philippe Sarde
- Assistant directors : Jean-François Delon, Philippe Lefebvre
- Editor : Jean Ravel
- Sound Recordist : Jean Labussière
- Costume designer : Jacques Cottin
- Author of original work : Georges Simenon
- Producer : Raymond Danon
- Associate Producer : Maurice Jacquin
- Assistant Operators : Valéry Ivanow, Yves Pouffary
- Camera Operator : Philippe Brun
- Production Manager : Ralph Baum
- Assistant editor : Michèle Robert-Lauliac
- Continuity supervisor : Hélène Sebillotte
- Production Designers : Jacques Saulnier, Charles Mérangel
- Sound mixers : Alex Pront, Jean Rieul
- Still Photographer : Victor Rodrigue
- Location Manager : Alain Belmondo
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1971
- French release : 13/10/1971
- Runtime : 1 h 30 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 38402
- Visa issue date : 12/10/1971
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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