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Writers:
Georges Simenon (novel)
Pierre Granier-Deferre (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
13 October 1971 (France) See more »
Genre:
Drama | Action | Romance See more »
Plot:
Her youth has been spent working for a farm family, being raped by father and son, marrying the son who has now left her a happy widow... See more » | Add synopsis »
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Cast

  (in credits order)

Alain Delon ... Jean Lavigne

Simone Signoret ... Veuve Couderc Tati
Ottavia Piccolo ... Félicie
Jean Tissier ... Henri
Monique Chaumette ... Françoise
Boby Lapointe ... Désiré
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Pierre Collet ... Le commissaire Mallet
Robert Favart
André Rouyer ... Policeman
François Valorbe ... Le colonel croix-de-feu
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Directed by
Pierre Granier-Deferre 
 
Writing credits
Georges Simenon (novel "La veuve Couderc")

Pierre Granier-Deferre  adaptation and
Pascal Jardin  adaptation & dialogue

Produced by
Raymond Danon .... producer
Maurice Jacquin .... associate producer
 
Original Music by
Philippe Sarde 
 
Cinematography by
Walter Wottitz 
 
Film Editing by
Jean Ravel 
 
Production Design by
Jacques Saulnier 
 
Set Decoration by
Charles Merangel 
 
Costume Design by
Jacques Cottin (uncredited)
 
Makeup Department
Maud Begon .... makeup artist
Michel Deruelle .... makeup artist
Jacqueline Juillard .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Ralph Baum .... production manager
Alain Belmondo .... unit manager
Lionel de Sousa .... unit manager
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jean-François Delon .... assistant director
Philippe Lefebvre .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Robert André .... assistant art director
Georges Glon .... assistant art director
Charles Merangel .... set dresser
 
Sound Department
Yves Marie Dacquay .... assistant sound
Jean Labussière .... sound engineer
Alex Pront .... sound mixer: S.I.S. - Le Garenne
Jean Rieul .... sound mixer: S.I.S. - Le Garenne
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Philippe Brun .... camera operator
Valery Ivanow .... assistant camera (as Valéry Ivanow)
Yves Pouffary .... assistant camera
Victor Rodrigue .... still photographer
 
Editorial Department
Michèle Robert-Lauliac .... assistant editor (as Michèle Robert)
 
Music Department
Jean-Michel Defaye .... orchestrator
William Flageollet .... music engineer
 
Other crew
Nicole Cateux .... administrator
Odette Darrigol .... production secretary
Mauricette Laglasse .... administrator
Hélène Sébillotte .... script supervisor
Henri Vergnes .... location manager
 

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Runtime:
Hungary:90 min | West Germany:89 min | USA:92 min | Argentina:92 min
Country:
Italy | France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
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Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:11 | West Germany:16 (f) | Australia:M | Argentina:13
Filming Locations:
Cheuge, Côte-d'Or, FranceSee more »
Company:
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9 out of 10 people found the following review useful.
Rural thriller, 16 July 2008
Author: dbdumonteil

At the time ,French cinema was updating the rural thriller ,a genre which had begun in the late thirties/forties with such works as "Goupi Mains Rouges" "l'Assassinat du Père Noël" or "la Ferme aux Loups".The early seventies began with Granier-Deferre's "La Horse " (Gabin) and continued with another Granier-Deferre (this one) as well as with "L'Affaire Dominici" (Gabin) and "Les GRanges Brulées" (Signoret and Delon teaming up again).

These movies from the seventies were more realistic ,more "precise in their depictions of rural life than those released earlier."La Veuve Couderc",like one of his precedent movies ("Le Chat" also feat Signoret) was first a novel by Georges Simenon.In France ,people were amazed to see Delon playing opposite Signoret ,but most of the actresses Delon played with in the seventies ,with the exception of Romy Schneider or Jeanne Moreau,were starlets.There was really a special chemistry between them which was not as effective in their later effort "les Granges Brûlées" .Both are well cast,Signoret as a strong middle -age peasant woman and Delon as the fugitive .

Granier-Deferre helped pave a way to a new "Cinema de Qualité" which made us forget the pretensions of the new wavelet.

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