Gefährliches Wissen

After her sophomore effort ("Le Voleur De Crimes" )which was extremely demanding and thus might have been off-putting for the mainstream audience ,Nadine Trintignant came back to a much more conventional,accessible style :her third movie feat Deneuve and Mastroiani was a blockbuster ("Ca N'arrive Qu'Aux Autres" but some may find it a bit facile -telling the death of a child can easily move the audience);and then "Defense De Savoir".

It is as much trendy ,as much part of the seventies French zeitgeist as "Voleur De Crimes" is an anomaly in the routine of the French thriller.In the wake of May 68 (and of the success of"Z"),political movies began to emerge ,becoming one of the dominant genres of the decade :André Cayatte,who,let's be fair ,had begun long before the craze ,Yves Boisset,even Marcel Carné ("Les Assassins De L'Ordre")or Pierre Granier-Deferre ("Adieu Poulet");Generally right-wing politicians were the villains :such is the case in the movie I'm writing about .Jean-Louis Trintignant ,who was the "hero" of "Voleur De Crimes" teams up again with his wife/director .

The director's (and lead actor's) daughter,Marie Trintignant ,who met with a tragic end, appears as the little girl.