A sunny seaside town... Jean and Catherine are in love. They are young, beautiful, and poor. One of Jean's friends suggests he rob the cash box of a traveling circus. But the plan goes wrong: a circus employee is seriously injured, and Jean is arrested. He chooses to proclaim his innocence. To force him to confess and denounce his accomplice, the two detectives in charge of the investigation devise a Machiavellian plan...

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Cast

Philippe Noiret

Inspecteur Muller

Roger Hanin

Inspecteur Borelli

Caroline Cellier

Catherine

Marc Porel

Jean Dubreuil

Hassan El-Hassani

le notaire

Areski Nebti

Abdelhalim Rais

Le patron du café

Giuseppe Addobbati

Le maire