A King Without Distraction

Name: A King Without Distraction
Director: François Leterrier
Released: 1963
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Claude Giraud, Colette Renard, Charles Vanel, Pierre Repp, Albert Rémy

1963 · 85 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 283 VOTES · DIR. François Leterrier

Overview

A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.

Dialogue Timeline — 603 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:17 A KING WITHOUT DISTRACTION

00:05:21 I'm just an ordinary civilian now.

00:07:18 It's over.

00:11:39 Can see in here about as well as up an asshole.

00:14:57 Why all the fuss? It's not the first time someone's lost then found in spring?

00:17:15 We feel it... Here we feel someone is...

00:19:05 She falls in a hole, the cold, the snow... We'll find her in spring, no big mystery.

00:21:34 - What is it? - Something's up over there...

00:24:22 So I set her up here. She knows lots about the human soul.

00:26:30 Or more precisely, since we're talking about souls, the Theater of Kings.

00:28:57 Maybe 150 feet tall, who knows?

00:30:57 For a wolf?

00:34:47 The stove! The one day we have some fun.

00:37:02 So they pushed him towards the ravines?

00:42:19 This denotes a certain culture, he understands his situation.

00:44:42 No, we've said what we had to, Sorry for this meeting but I wanted it kept quiet.

00:46:58 - Something I can help with? - I only wanted to ask for some advice.

00:49:31 Behold!

00:51:40 - You don't seem very sure. - Yes, yes! I am sure.

00:57:02 Captain! Captain!

01:08:24 He didn't try to strangle and carry me.

01:13:41 Ah, he's an infant.

01:15:39 - But wait! - No, I don't need you, I have my stick.

01:22:29 Be fear and play again Be the Devil and play the flower

Cast & Characters

Claude Giraud Capitaine Langlois Colette Renard Clara Charles Vanel Le procureur du Roi Pierre Repp Ravanel Albert Rémy Le maire René Blancard Le curé

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed603

Dialogue density7.1 lines / min

First line00:00:17

Final line01:22:29

Production Record

DirectorFrançois Leterrier

LanguageFrench

IMDb votes283