The Great Alibi (2008)
Le Grand Alibi
Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...
- Date of release
- 2008-04-30
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (64)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller
- Director
- Pascal Bonitzer
Casting
- Miou-Miou — Eliane Pages
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi — Esther Bachmann
- Lambert Wilson — Pierre Collier
- Pierre Arditi — Henri Pages
- Anne Consigny — Claire Collier
- Mathieu Demy — Philippe Léger
- Maurice Bénichou — Commandant Grange
- Céline Sallette — Marthe
- Agathe Bonitzer — Chloé
- Dany Brillant — Michel - le chauffeur et factotum de Léa
- Emmanuelle Riva — Geneviève Herbin
- Nicolas Koretzky — Bertrand
Interesting facts
- Based on: The Hollow
The Great Alibi is a 2008 French mystery film directed by Pascal Bonitzer. The screenplay is based on the 1946 Hercule Poirot crime novel The Hollow, written by Agatha Christie, although Poirot doesn't appear in this film version.
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