Fabio Testi, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Garrel, Michel Aumont, Lou Castel, Didier Kaminka, Viviane Romance. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1974. Based on the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette. A foreign film (France, Italy). Issued in boxed set with title: The Claude Chabrol collection. Special features: trailer, biographies, still gallery.
Summary:
French terrorists kidnap the American ambassador, leaving dead and wounded in their wake. Soon they begin quarreling as to his fate, while the police purge suspects in an attempt to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the State and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
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