This is a region-free DVD+R without case or artwork.
In French with English subtitles. Widescreen.
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret (
Michel Piccoli) is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honored for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt (
Romy Schneider), a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband - who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine - marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. Flush with the success of this venture, Georges proposes his most ambitious scam: he will insure Catherine's life with five separate insurance companies; a young orphan woman who is dying from tuberculosis
will provide Catherine's death certificate when the moment comes. Unfortunately, the scheme does not go quite as planned...
