actors' names


I think I've managed to put the actors' names to most of the characters in the film, apart from the lady concierge who gets killed. Also, I don't know who played the OAS character who comes to tell Denise that she has an unpleasant task ahead, also that she must burn the photos of her ex - lover. Answers, please?
Loved the film, it's one of my all - time favourites - must have seen it about thirty times. It's also the Europe I remember from hitchhiking days in the 70s, classy, elegant, exciting. Two small(ish)flaws which sometimes irritate me, which I think the director should have noticed. When Denise is in the Minister's bed and he tells her he's late because of a ministerial crisis, she whispers "crisis? What crisis?" and then, when not receiving an answer, repeats twice "what crisis?" She should have left it after the first query and tried, in a different way, later - any minister worth his salt would have been suspicious at her curiosity. Also,after the jackal's temporary lover, Madame,receives a visit from Lebel, to warn her of the seriousness of her situation, the jackal cheerfully strolls into her house the same evening/following day. Surely they would have the place surrounded in case of just such a visit?
Anyway - apart from nitpicking, I still love it!

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I think Denise's OAS handler was Nicolas Vogel.

As for the Minister's foolishness, well, having seen Denise in her transparent nightie...

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...and the concierge I think was Gilberte Géniat. (A Google Images search brings up some similar-looking photos.)

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Many thanks, electric_i.

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So, who played Lebel's wife?

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In the book, the "Elysee courtier" that the OAS agent (called Jacqueline, not Denise) gains pillow talk from is presented as a fairly spectacular fool. During meetings he keeps trying to undermine Lebel but when he gets home Jacqueline has little trouble getting him to talk about what he does. He is very pompous and likes to stress how important he is, and that, as much as lust, makes him forget security. In the book, there is no hint that he kills himself once it becomes clear he has been an unwitting conduit of info for the Jackal - the character in the book does not have that level of tragic grandeur.

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