Le paltoquet 1986

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…

Cast:

Fanny Ardant
Mlle Lotte 

Daniel Auteuil
le journaliste 

Richard Bohringer
le docteur 

Philippe Léotard
Kaufmann 

Jeanne Moreau
Barbesitzerin 

Michel Piccoli
der Tölpel 

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