Movie · 1974
By the Blood of Others
Released 7 March 1974 96 min Drama More from 1974 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
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How old were they?
Bernard Blier
as Mayor
Francis Blanche
as Doctor
Claude Piéplu
as Prefect
Jacques Rispal
as Sniper
Georges Géret
as Inspector
Jacques Godin
as Francis
Denise Filiatrault
as Geneviève Barthélemy
Robert Castel
as Paul
Mylène Demongeot
as Prostitute
Mariangela Melato
as Mayor's daughter
Yves Beneyton
as Psychopath
Monita Derrieux
as Amélie
Nathalie Guérin
as Caroline Barthélemy
Guylaine Leprion
Jackie Bourdilleau
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The numbers
31years between the oldest and youngest billed
58Bernard Blier — oldest on the call sheet
27Yves Beneyton — youngest billed
44average age of the credited cast