the Blow of the shepherd is a French film carried out by Jacques Rivette, left in 1956.

Synopsis

Claire, married to Jean, has a lover, Claude. This last offers a fur coat to him. But, for Claire, there is a problem: how to bring back the marital fur to the home without his/her husband suspect the connection. Claude erects scaffolding the following stratagem: he will deposit the coat in an instruction, to give the left-luggage ticket to Claire who will pretend to have found it in a taxi and will send her husband to see what is there, and thus, to bring back itself the coat to the house. The plan functions: the husband goes to the instruction, brings back a bag, but inside there is nothing any more but one rabbit skin. Claire becomes suspicious then…

Data sheet

• Title: the Blow of the shepherd
• Realization: Jacques Rivette, assistant: Jean-Marie Straub
• Scenario and dialog: Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol and Charles Bitsch, according to a various fact
• Production: Etienne Loineau, Pierre Braunberger and Claude Chabrol
• Music: François Couperin (the imperial one and the apotheosis of Lulli) - Chamber orchestra Hewitt " The young people seigneurs" , with the harpsichord Eta Harich-Schneider
• Photography: Charles Bitsch, assisted of Robert Lachenay
• Assembly: Denise de Casabianca
• Country of origin: France
• Format: Black and white - Mono - 35 mm
• Kind: Short film
• Lasted: 27 minutes
• Coming out date: 1956
• Visa of exploitation: 18683

Distribution

• Virginia Vitry: Claire, the woman of Jean
• Jacques Doniol-Valcroze: Jean, the husband
• Jean-Claude Brialy: Claude, the lover of Claire
• Anne Doat: Solange, the sister of Claire
• François Truffaut: a guest with the evening
• Jean-Luc Godard: a guest with the evening
• Claude Chabrol: a guest with the evening
• Jacques Rivette: narrator

See too

• the blow of the shepherd (failures)

External bond

• the Blow of the shepherd on Internet Movie Database