A twenty year old Anouk Aimée stars as Albertine, the daughter of a bourgeois couple who house a young officer during the Napoleonic wars. Newly promoted, the officer (Jean-Claude Pascal) is quartered by a dull bourgeois couple who treat him with a cold politeness bordering on indifference.
| Directing | Alexandre Astruc | Director |
| Writing | Alexandre Astruc | Writer |
| Writing | Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly | Writer |
| Production | Sacha Kamenka | Producer |
| Sound | Jean-Jacques Grünenwald | Music |
| Editing | Jean Mitry | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jean Mitry | Costume Design |
| Art | Mayo | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Janine Jarreau | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Eugen Schüfftan | Director of Photography |