Additional information for Diabolique, which has a domestic theatrical release set for November 21, 1955. The film is being distributed by British Film Institute and has not yet been rated. Diabolique has a total running time of 114 minutes.
PG
Australia
15
Sweden
Unrated
USA
16
Norway
16+
Italy
12A
UK
K-18
Finland
15
South Korea
-16
France
PG
Singapore
18
Netherlands
18
West Germany
114min
As Diabólicas
Brazil
As Diabólicas
Portugal
Die Teuflischen
Austria
Die Teuflischen
West Germany
Las diabólicas
Argentina
Las diabólicas
Spain
Ördöngösök
Hungary
Akuma no yôna onna
Japan
De bezetenen
Belgium
De djävulska
Sweden
Demonen
Netherlands
Demoni
Croatia
Det onde spill
Norway
Diabolicele
Romania
Diabolique
USA
I diabolici
Italy
Les Diaboliques
UK
Les diabòliques
Spain
Les diaboliques
Belgium
Oi diavologynaikes
Greece
Pirulliset
Finland
Rædslernes hus
Denmark
Seytan ruhlu insanlar
Turkey
The Devils
USA
Widmo
Poland
Zlobnici
Serbia
January 29, 1955
France
March 25, 1955
Belgium
April 29, 1955
West Germany
July 11, 1955
Sweden
July 19, 1955
Japan
August 31, 1955
Denmark
October , 1955
Austria
November 18, 1955
Netherlands
November 21, 1955
USA
December , 1955
UK
March 30, 1956
Finland
April 28, 1957
Spain
November , 1957
Turkey
February 20, 1959
Portugal
May 31, 1968
Finland
February 03, 1993
France
October 30, 1996
France
October 14, 2004
Greece
March 18, 2011
UK
December 09, 2011
USA
December 17, 2011
USA
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The wife of a cruel headmaster and his mistress conspire to kill him, but after the murder is committed, his body disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.
The story takes place in a second-rate boarding school run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse). The school, though, is owned by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina (Clouzot), and Delassalle flaunts his relationship with Nicole Horner (Signoret), a teacher at the school. Rather than antagonism, the two women are shown to have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent mutual hatred of Michel, who is physically and emotionally abusive to both.Unable to stand his mistreatment any longer, Nicole devises a plan. Though hesitant at first, Christina ultimately consents to help Nicole. Using a threatened divorce to lure Michel to Nicole's apartment building in a remote village several hundred kilometers away, Christina sedates him. The two women then drown him in a bathtub and dump his body in the school's neglected swimming pool. When his corpse floats to the surface, they think it will appear to have been an accident. Almost everything goes according to their plans until the body fails to surface, and Michel's corpse is nowhere to be found when the pool is drained.Nicole sees in the paper that the police found the corpse. Christina goes to the morgue and learns it is not Michel's body. There she meets Alfred Fichet (Vanel), a retired private detective. He gets involved in the case, much to Nicole's chagrin.When Christina and Alfred come back, a boy is punished for breaking a window; the boy says Michel punished him. After hearing this Christina becomes very sick. She is unable to be photographed for the school photo; however, it seems that Michel is in it, in the back next to a window. Nicole becomes worried and leaves the school.
Christina, overcome by fear, tells Alfred everything. He does not believe her, but he investigates the pool. Christina hears some noises and wanders the school. She concludes that someone is in the school and she runs back to her room. She finds Michel's corpse in the bathtub. Michel rises from the tub, and Christina has a heart attack and dies.Michel and Nicole have set up Christina from the beginning. Michel is not dead, but acting dead to scare Christina to death. But as soon as Nicole and Michel escape Alfred is there to arrest them.As the movie ends, the same boy who had earlier broken a window breaks another. When asked how he got his slingshot back, the boy says that Christina gave it back to him. A final title screen tells the audience not to reveal the ending to others.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Director(s)
Pierre Boileau
Thomas Narcejac
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jérôme Géronimi
René Masson
Frédéric Grendel
Writer(s)
Henri-Georges Clouzot
producer (as H.G. Clouzot)
Georges Lourau
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Georges Van Parys
Composer(s)
Nicole Horner
Simone Signoret
Christina Delassalle (as Vera Clouzot)
Véra Clouzot
Michel Delassalle
Paul Meurisse
Alfred Fichet, le commissaire
Charles Vanel
Plantiveau, le concierge
Jean Brochard
Mme. Herboux
Thérèse Dorny
M. Raymond, le surveillant
Michel Serrault
Dr. Loisy
Georges Chamarat
Le garagiste
Robert Dalban
Le photographe (as Camille Guerini)
Camille Guérini
L'employé de la morgue
Jacques Hilling
Le soldat
Jean Lefebvre
Madame Plantiveau
Aminda Montserrat
Le garçon d'hôtel (as Jean Temerson)
Jean Témerson
M. Bridoux, professeur
Jacques Varennes
Soudieu, un élève
Georges Poujouly
Moinet, une jeune Moynet
Yves-Marie Maurin
M. Herboux
Noël Roquevert
M.Drain, professeur
Pierre Larquey
Le jeune De Gascuel (uncredited)
Jean-Pierre Bonnefous
Un homme à la morgue (uncredited)
Christian Brocard
Le chauffeur (uncredited)
Jean Clarieux
L'employé de la morgue (uncredited)
Henri Coutet
Le jeune Ritberger (uncredited)
Michel Dumur
Un élève (uncredited)
Johnny Hallyday
Patard, le jeune Patard (uncredited)
Henri Humbert
Le petit Jose (uncredited)
Roberto Rodrigo
La dégraisseuse (uncredited)
Madeleine Suffel
Un élève (uncredited)
Jimmy Urbain
Director(s)
Thomas Narcejac
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Jérôme Géronimi
René Masson
Frédéric Grendel
Writer(s)
producer (as H.G. Clouzot)
Georges Lourau
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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