Leda
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Claude Chabrol
Madeleine Robinson
Antonella Lualdi
Jean-paul Belmondo
Jacques Dacqmine
Jeanne Valérie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
On the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence lives Henri Marcoux, a wealthy winegrower whose hatred-ridden family is held together by greed. Henri has escaped from the emptiness of his marriage by entering into an affair with Léda, a beautiful Italian artist whose home next door reflects the years she spent in Japan. Henri's conventional wife, Thérèse, is chiefly concerned with protecting the family fortune and avoiding scandal. Their young son, Richard, emasculated by his mother, has withdrawn into the world of music. Elizabeth, the daughter, finds some release from the family tensions in her love for her father's friend Laszlo, a vulgar expatriate anarchist who encourages Henri to depart with Léda. Thérèse, who finds Laszlo's presence intolerable, agrees to overlook Henri's affair with Léda if he will get rid of Laszlo. At the moment Henri decides to leave with Léda, the maid announces that she has been murdered. Suspicion falls on each member of the household, as the police ineffectually move in. Laszlo finally beats a confession from Richard, who committed the murder after he overheard a violent quarrel between his parents. Despite his mother's pleas, Richard, convinced by Laszlo, surrenders himself to the law.
Director
Claude Chabrol
Cast
Madeleine Robinson
Antonella Lualdi
Jean-paul Belmondo
Jacques Dacqmine
Jeanne Valérie
Bernadette Lafont
André Jocelyn
Mario David
Laszlo Szabo
Raymond Pelissier
André Dino
Crew
Cécile Adam
Ralph Baum
Hector Berlioz
Billy Bernard
Charles Bitsch
Louis Bonnemaison
Maurice Bourbotte
Philippe De Broca
Maurice Dagonneau
Henri Decaë
Robert Demollière
André Dino
Bernard Evein
Marc Frédérix
Jacques Gaillard
Paul Gégauff
Jeannine Germès-vergne
Pierre Ginet
Georges Glon
Raymond Hakim
Robert Hakim
Raymond Lemoigne
Jean-claude Marchetti
Charles Merangel
Paul Misraki
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jacqueline Parey
Jean Pieuchot
Jean Rabier
Maurice Rémy
Jacques Saulnier
Jean-paul Schwartz
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in November 1959 as À double tour. Italian title: A doppia mandata. Title changed to Web of Passion. Location scenes filmed in Aix-en-Provence.
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Best Actress Prize (Robinson) at the 1959
Released in United States 1961
Shown at the Venice Film Festival September 8, 1959.
Venice Film Festival.
Shown in New York City (Walter Reade Theater) as part of program "Just Before Midnight: The Cinema of Claude Chabrol" July 23 - August 19, 1999.
c Eastmancolor
dialogue French
9900 feet
subtitled
Released in United States 1961
