The Passerby

1982 · 110 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 1,245 VOTES · DIR. Jacques Rouffio

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Overview

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...

Dialogue Timeline — 817 lines

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00:02:42 Lina!
00:06:10 Don’t answer. It’s only provocation.
00:10:15 Thanks, Max!
00:16:29 Do you recall a woman named Elsa?
00:21:50 It’s as if I met an old phantom.
00:26:30 Yes, Elsa and Michel Wiener.
00:30:57 Closing all doors!
00:38:15 You can’t possibly do that!
00:43:14 I’ve just arrived by plane from Berlin
00:51:38 Dear President, ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury
00:54:37 No. To be honest: no.
00:58:35 Moishe, come here please? Finished.
01:02:51 to make contact with her husband’s lawyer.
01:06:31 They provoke me constantly with new methods.
01:08:31 There’s no sense in staying here.
01:11:16 No, I want Michel, nobody else! I want my Michel!
01:14:27 Decide: This guy has been coming here daily.
01:17:30 and at the same time, defeat the bourgeoisie in our own country.
01:21:34 You were in Berlin to see Michel! - With filling or regular? Which way?
01:25:17 Champagne Bujart. That’s me now.
01:35:14 Why immediately? - I have to meet friends. Comrades.
01:39:54 I live in Paris in the 18th district.
01:43:13 What has that got to do with anything?
01:47:10 I love you like an old fool.

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed817
Dialogue density7.4 lines / min
First line00:02:42
Final line01:47:10

Production Record

DirectorJacques Rouffio
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,245