Overview

Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…

Top Cast

Fanny Ardant

Mlle Lotte

Daniel Auteuil

le journaliste

Richard Bohringer

le docteur

Philippe Léotard

Kaufmann

Jeanne Moreau

Barbesitzerin

Michel Piccoli

der Tölpel

Claude Piéplu

Professor

Jean Yanne

Kommissar

Thuy An Luu

Sidy Lamine Diarra

G

Gérard Essomba

G

Gérard Dubois