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Fool’s Mate
Le Coup du berger
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Story
Synopsis
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean. Claire meets her lover, Claude, at his apartment, where he gifts her a fur coat. Now Claire needs to figure out how to return home with this expensive gift without the affair being found out.
- Director
- Jacques Rivette
- Writers
- Charles L. Bitsch, Jacques Rivette, Claude Chabrol
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Release date
- 1 November 1956
Ensemble
Cast
Virginie Vitry
Claire
Anne Doat
Solange
Jean-Claude Brialy
Claude
Jacques Doniol-Valcroze
Jean
François Truffaut
Party guest (uncredited)
Jean-Luc Godard
Party guest (uncredited)
Robert Lachenay
Party guest (uncredited)
Claude Chabrol
Party guest (uncredited)
Jacques Rivette
Narrator (uncredited)
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