The Passerby
Released
April 14, 1982
Runtime: 1h 50m
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
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Cast & Crew
Romy Schneider
Elsa Wiener / Lina Baumstein
Michel Piccoli
Max Baumstein
Helmut Griem
Michel Wiener
Dominique Labourier
Charlotte Maupas
Gérard Klein
Maurice Bouillard
Mathieu Carrière
Ruppert von Leggaert / Federico Logo
Jacques Martin
Marcel
Wendelin Werner
Young Max Baumstein
Marcel Bozonnet
Mercier
Christiane Cohendy
Helene Nolin
- PM
Pierre Michaël
Me Jouffroy
Véronique Silver
President of the Court
Maria Schell
Anna Helwig
Raymond Aquilon
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Béatrice Avoine
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Martine de Breteuil
Philharmonic Teacher
Arnaud Carbonnier
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Patricia Cartier
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Jacques Rouffio
Director
Jacques Rouffio
Screenplay
Jacques Kirsner
Screenplay
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