COUNTRY
France
PRODUCTION
Sbs Productions, Versus, Proximus, Be TV
YEAR2025
RUN TIME80 min
WRITING Pascal Bonitzer, Georges Simenon
CINEMATOGRAPHY Pierre Milon
MUSIC
Alexei Aigui
EDITION Monica Coleman
CAST Denis Podalydès, Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irène Jacob
DISTRIBUTION Adso FILMS
INTERNATIONAL SALES Pyramide International
CONTACT mlosada@adso.tv, lidiam@adso.tv
SYNOPSIS Inspector Maigret is urgently summoned to the Quai d'Orsay. Monsieur Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador, has been murdered. Maigret discovers that he had a fifty-year affair with the Princess de Vuynes, whose husband, by a strange coincidence, has just died. Confronted by members of both families and the suspicious silence of the diplomat's chambermaid, Maigret is faced with a series of surprises…
Pascal Bonitzer
Screenwriter, director, actor, and film critic from France, a key figure in the renewal of French cinema, known for his screenplays for Jacques Rivette and André Téchiné, his collaborations with
Cahiers du cinéma, and his directorial debut with
Encore (1996), also notable for his work as an actor and as a professor at La Fémis.
FILMOGRAPHY
El cuadro robado (feature film, 2024),
Les Envoûtés (feature film, 2019),
Tout de suite maintenant (feature film, 2016),
Cherchez Hortense (feature film, 2012)