An Invitation to the Hunt

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Francis Lax · Friedrich von Ledebur · Henri Attal · Jean Martin · Margarethe von Trotta · Michèle Alexandre · Simone Comode · Claude Chabrol · Georges Hitchcock · Paul Gégauff