The Passerby

(1982)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 42 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1982

Runtime: 110 мин

Country: France, Germany

Director: Jacques Rouffio

Cast: Роми Шнайдер, Мишель Пикколи, Хельмут Грим, Dominique Labourier, Gérard Klein, Mathieu Carrière, Jacques Martin, Wendelin Werner, Marcel Bozonnet, Christiane Cohendy

Plot

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...