The Nonentity
1986, French. Directed by Michel Deville.
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
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- 1h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 13 August 1986
- Original title
- Le Paltoquet
- Country
- France
- Written by
- Michel Deville
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The Nonentity runs 92 minutes (1h 32m).
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The Nonentity isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 13 August 1986. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Nonentity?
The Nonentity (1986) was directed by Michel Deville and stars Fanny Ardant, Daniel Auteuil, Richard Bohringer.