Le septième juré (The Seventh Juror) (1962)

“On a hot Sunday in September, Grégoire Duval, an uneventful pharmacist from the small town of Pontarlier, walks along the banks of a local lake. He sees a pretty young woman sunbathing, topless. Giving in to a sudden impulse, he approaches and throws himself on her to kiss her. This screams; he strangles her very quickly.

The young woman's lover, Sylvain Sautral, a dull young man of modest origins, is accused of the murder, then charged and tried. Duval, the culprit of the murder, is appointed juror to the assizes which judge the young Sautral. Duval intervened many times during the trial to clarify the circumstances of the crime, allowing the acquittal of Sautral.

But the notables of the city do not consider that the acquittal constitutes a sufficient reason to exoner” read more

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