Right before the night

Juste before the night is a French film of Claude Chabrol left in 1971.

Synopsis

Charles Masson, head of undertaking and father, are involved by his Laura mistress in perverse plays. Thus it one day until him will ask to make pretense kill her. She causes it so much and so that Charles ends up strangling it in the Parisian studio where they meet. After having thrown in a mouth of sewer a compromising handkerchief, it returns at his place. Laura was the wife of the best friend of Charles, François Tellier, who is not long in discovering that this one misled it…

Data sheet

Title: Right before the night
Realization: Claude Chabrol
Scenario: Claude Chabrol, according to the novel of Edward Atiyah, “The Thin Line”
Photography: Jean Rabier
Music: Pierre Jansen
Kind: Drama
Lasted: 105 minutes
Date: March 31st 1971
Country: France
Distributer: Columbia Pictures

Distribution

Stephan Audran: Helene Masson
Michel Bouquet: Charles Masson
François Périer: François Tellier
Henri Attal: Cavanna
Dominique Zardi: Prince
Jean Carmet: Jeannot
Michel Duchaussoy: a man with the burial (not credited)