The Dominici Affair | |
Director: | Claude Bernard-Aubert |
Music: | Alain Goraguer |
Cinematography: | Ricardo Aronovich |
Editing: | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Distributor: | Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie |
Runtime: | 105 minutes |
Language: | French |
The Dominici Affair (French: , Italian: ) is a 1973 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Jean Gabin, Victor Lanoux and Gérard Depardieu.[1] It is based on the Dominici affair of 1952.
Location shooting took place in Ribiers and Peipin in Hautes-Alpes where the real events occurred.
After a British family are found murdered on the road near his family's farm in rural Provence, the old villager Gaston Dominici is arrested and apparently confesses to the crime. He is tried and sentenced to death, but his punishment is commuted on health grounds amid growing doubts about his guilt.