Violette Nozière (1978)

6.7/10 124 min Crime Drama Thriller

Overview

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert

Violette Nozière

Stéphane Audran

Germaine Nozière

Jean Carmet

Baptiste Nozière

Jean-François Garreaud

Jean Dabin

Lisa Langlois

Maddy

Bernard Alane

Pinguet's son

François Maistre

Monsieur Mayeul

Guy Hoffmann

Judge

Dora Doll

Madame Mayeul

Jean Parédès

Singer

Jeanne Herviale

The grandmother

Bernadette Lafont

Co-inmate

Mario David

Prison director

Fabrice Luchini

Camus, student

Henri-Jacques Huet

Commissioner Guillaume

François-Eric Gendron

1st Student

Zoé Chauveau

Zoé

Greg Germain

Black musician

Maurice Vaudaux

Willy

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