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The Passerby

Original title: La Passante du Sans-Souci

1982 · 1h 50m

Directed by Jacques Rouffio

6.2

TMDB audience score
43 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...

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Cast

  • Romy Schneider
    Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein

  • Michel Piccoli
    Max Baumstein

  • Helmut Griem
    Michel Wiener

  • Dominique Labourier
    Charlotte Maupas

  • Gérard Klein
    Maurice Bouillard

  • Mathieu Carrière
    Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo

  • Jacques Martin
    Marcel

  • Wendelin Werner
    Young Max Baumstein

  • Marcel Bozonnet
    Mercier

  • Christiane Cohendy
    Helene Nolin

  • Pierre Michaël
    Me Jouffroy

  • Véronique Silver
    President of the Court

  • Maria Schell
    Anna Helwig

  • Raymond Aquilon

  • Béatrice Avoine

  • Martine de Breteuil
    Philharmonic Teacher

  • Arnaud Carbonnier

  • Patricia Cartier