FRANCE · 1986

Enigma

Jean Rouch
French New Wave murder investigation boarding school teenage friendship threatening letters coming of age
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Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems fr

Year1986
CountryFrance
DirectorJean Rouch
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