
Release
10 Apr 1973Country
Language
FrenchProduction

Paul Mallard, this perfectly ordered but transparent laboratory assistant, asks himself a question: must he make himself known in order to exonerate Jean Joseph Jenk and thus avoid him the death penalty ? He seeks advice from his brother Basile, a brilliant man, who has been successful in life and who presents the television news.
One day, Paul Mallard, a small employee without history, learns that Jenk (Gérard Depardieu), a man accused of having killed an old man with a hammer, will be hanged. The criminal claims to have met a certain Polo at the time of the crime, which would prove his innocence. Paul sees this as a chance to be famous...
4 episodes