Life Love Death (1969)
La vie, l'amour, la mort (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Amidou	...	François Toledo
	Caroline Cellier	...	Caroline
	Janine Magnan	...	Janine
	Marcel Bozzuffi	...	Le commissaire Marchand
	Pierre Zimmer	...	L'officier de police
	Catherine Samie	...	Julie - la prostituée
	Lisette Bersy	...	Helene - la belle-mère
	Albert Naud	...	L'avocat de la défense
	Jean-Pierre Sloan	...	Le procureur
	Nathalie Durrand	...	Sophie
	Sylvia Saurel	...	Prostituée (as Sylvie Saurel)
	Denyse Roland	...	Prostituée
	Rita Maiden	...	La prostituée en voiture
	Pierre Collet	...	Le bourreau
	Albert Rajau	...	Assistant du bourreau

Storyline

"Life, Love, Death" was made before the abolition of capital punishment in France. Its central message is the inhumanity of the guillotine. The film, which is shot somewhat in a cinema verite style, divides roughly into three acts. In Act One, there is a series of murders of prostitutes in Paris. An obviously deeply disturbed man is hiring these prostitutes and then strangling them. Suspicion falls on François (Amidou), a married man with a child. The police put him under surveillance. (Viewers will recognize the inspector in charge of the team as Marcel Bozzuffi, who would play Popeye Doyle's nemesis in The French Connection a couple of years later.) Ironically, François is experiencing spiritual healing and renewal through the power of love---not with his wife, of course, this being a French film, but through an affair with a beautiful young woman he has met (not a prostitute)... Written by mfisher452  

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