Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.

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Cast

Jean-Louis Maury

Charles

Michèle Alexandre

Mrs. Bigeard

Henri Attal

Hubert / Le directeur / Le Garde Chasse / Le deuxieme piqueur

Francis Lax

Monitor

Jean Martin

Marquis of La Rocherie

Friedrich von Ledebur

Prince Von Ehrenberg

Margarethe von Trotta

Paulette

Dominique Zardi

L’armurier / Lecoeur / Le Tailleur / Le Premier piqueur