Un roi sans divertissement 1963

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Cast:

Claude Giraud
le capitaine Langlois 

Colette Renard
Clara 

Charles Vanel
le procureur du roi 

Albert Rémy
le maire 

René Blancard
le curé 

Pierre Repp
Ravanel 

• A King Without Distraction