''There's No Smoke Without Fire'' (french: Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu) is a 1973 French-Italian
thriller film
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directed by
André Cayatte.
It was entered into the
23rd Berlin International Film Festival
The 23rd annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 22 June to 3 July 1973. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Indian film ''Ashani Sanket'' by Satyajit Ray.
Jury
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where it won the
Silver Bear Special Jury Prize.
Plot
In the Paris suburb of Chavigny, Joseph Boussard (André Falcon) holds political office in the lead up to an election. When a campaigner for the opposition is killed, the respected Dr. Peyrac (Bernard Fresson) decides to contest the election. One of Boussard's aides obtains and circulates a doctored photograph of Peyrac's wife, Sylvie (Annie Girardot), engaged in group sex at the home of their friends, the Leroys. Peyrac calls for the authenticity of the photograph to be validated but is shut down.
The photographer who produced the fake is murdered; Peyrac is accused for the crime and imprisoned. Sylvie defends her husband with the assistance of Olga Leroy (Mireille Darc). Olga knows people in high places who could be affected by the scandal. Peyrac is released but the scandal has negatively impacted on his standing with his friends and his support of the community.
Cast
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Annie Girardot as Sylvie Peyrac
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Mireille Darc
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as Olga Leroy
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Bernard Fresson
Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931 – 20 October 2002) was a French actor who primarily worked in film.
Born in Reims, France, to a French baker, Fresson attended the Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève, majoring in law. He studied in Tania Balachova's ...
as Dr. Peyrac
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Michel Bouquet
Michel Bouquet (6 November 1925 – 13 April 2022) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1947 to 2020. He won the Best Actor European Film Award for '' Toto the Hero'' in 1991 and two Best Actor Césars fo ...
as Morlaix
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André Falcon as Boussard
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Paul Amiot
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973.
In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's ''Être aimé pour soi-même''. He was ...
as Georges Arnaud
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Micheline Boudet
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as Corinne
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Pascale de Boysson
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as Véronique
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Marc Michel
Marc Michel (February 10, 1929 – 3 November 2016) was a French-Swiss actor. He appeared in more than fifty films.
He is best known for his roles in three seminal French films of the 1960s: Jacques Becker's ''Le Trou'' (1960), and two films ...
as Jean-Paul Leroy
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Places
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Other uses
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* "Georges" (song), a 1977 ...
as The Judge
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Frédéric Simon as Peyrac's Son
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Mathieu Carrière
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Life
Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's firs ...
as Ulrich Berl
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Marthe Villalonga
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Nathalie Courval
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Notable people with the name include:
* Nathalie, Italian singer
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André Reybaz
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Reybaz had a long career spanning 40 years, which mostly consisted of numerous French television appearances. In 1950 he ...
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Pierre Tabard
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References
External links
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1973 films
1970s political thriller films
French political thriller films
Italian political thriller films
1970s French-language films
Films directed by André Cayatte
Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize winners
1970s French films
1970s Italian films
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