An Invitation to the Hunt (1974)

An Invitation to the Hunt

1974

TV Movie Drama

Synopsis

Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.

Credits

Director

Claude Chabrol

Cast

Francis Lax as Monitor

Friedrich von Ledebur as Prince Von Ehrenberg

Henri Attal as Hubert

Jean Martin as Marquis of La Rocherie

Margarethe von Trotta as Paulette

Michèle Alexandre as Mrs. Bigeard

Simone Comode as Catherine

Crew