- Violette Nozière
Infobox_Film
name = Violette Nozière
caption =
director =Claude Chabrol
producer =Claude Léger Roger Morand
writer =Odile Barski Hervé Bromberger
starring =Isabelle Huppert Stéphane Audran Jean Carmet Jean-François Garreaud Guy Hoffman
music =Pierre Jansen
cinematography =Jean Rabier
editing =Yves Langlois
distributor =Koch-Lorber Films
released =May 20 ,1978 (France )
runtime = 124 min.
language =French language
budget =
amg_id = 1:52839
imdb_id = 0078467|"Violette Nozière" is a
1978 French film directed byClaude Chabrol and starringIsabelle Huppert andStéphane Audran . The film, based on a true French murder case in 1934, about a fourteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men.Plot
Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1920s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Noziere (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with petty thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings.
Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. On this pretext, she tricks them into taking "medicine" that is actually poison, killing her father; her mother however survives, and Violette is arrested and charged with murder. She defends herself by alleging that her father had molested her; Chabrol's abrupt use of flashbacks makes it uncertain whether Violette is simply lying or telling a half-truth. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die by guillotine, but a voiceover at the end tells us that her sentence was commuted by degrees to where she ultimately left prison, married and had five children.
Cast
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Isabelle Huppert - Violette Noziere
*Jean Carmet - Baptiste Noziere
*Stéphane Audran - Germaine Noziere
*Jean-Francois Garreaud - Jean Dabin
*Zoe Chauveau - Zoe the Maid
*Jean-Pierre Coffe - Dr. Deron
*Jean Dalmain - Mr. Emile
*Guy Hoffman - the Judge
*Henri-Jacques Huet - Commissioner Guilleaume
*Bernadette Lafont - Violette's Cellmate
*Bernard Lajarrige - Andre De Pinguet
*Lisa Langlois - Maddy
*Fabrice Luchini - Camus
*Dominique Zardi - Boy in CafeExternal links
*imdb title|0078467
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