The Black Angel

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.

Cast

Tchéky Karyo

as Paul Delorme

Sylvie Vartan

as Stéphane Feuvrier

Michel Piccoli

as Georges Feuvrier

Alexandra Winisky

as Cécile

María Luisa García

as Madeleine

Philippe Torreton

as Christophe

Bernard Verley

as Pitot

Claude Faraldo

as Aslanian

Claude Giraud

as Romain Bousquet

Claude Winter

as Ms. Pitot

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