Investigating judge who orders Yohan to reopen the cold case nearly three years after the murder. She suggests planting a hidden camera in a fake gravestone at Clara's burial site to catch the killer.
A close friend of Sofia, Fanny helps bring Gabriel and Idriss into the family’s orbit after Sofia dies. She joins them in trying to keep Leïla safe as Christina blames the young woman for Mathias's death and sends people after her. Fanny is part of the group that flees when the arrangement with Christina collapses.
A prison theater teacher who meets and marries Michel, one of the inmates she teaches. Her previous relationships with inmates ended badly, making her marriage controversial to Abel. After learning that Michel involved Abel in the heist and lied to her, she angrily confronts him and refuses to speak with him afterward.
La tortue is an injured tortoise who has lost a leg and claims that crocodiles attacked her family. She befriends and manipulates Lili, incites the carnivores against Ferdinand, and secretly works with crocodiles. Her carapace reveals that she is male and that the supposed eggs are crocodile eggs.
Marie is a prostitute who enjoys her independence, income, and work pleasing men. She takes in the homeless Jeannot, falls in love with him, and offers him a pimping job. After his betrayal and arrest, she tries to build a family with Jean-François and Sanguine, but financial desperation drives her back to prostitution.
Servane is connected to an officer and first encounters Albert at a social event, where she shows attraction toward him. Later posted to Baden-Baden, she begins a relationship with Albert, learns that his heroic biography is fabricated, and nevertheless becomes his wife, leading to his later conviction for bigamy.
Adrienne is one of the women Gerard encounters as he moves through periods of separation from Marianne. The summary does not describe a particular event or outcome involving her, but includes her among encounters that reveal Gerard’s recurring desire, hesitation, and self-justification. Her role is peripheral to the film’s central relationship.
Philip's Wife recognizes that he has become emotionally absent at home. After finding and reading his notebook, she interprets its intimate conversations with a supposedly imaginary woman as evidence of an affair. Her confrontation with Philip exposes the tension between his marriage, secrecy, and literary transformation of private lives.
Lili is the daughter of a magician who lives in an old caravan. She dreams of playing rock, making that ambition the only stated personal goal in the synopsis. The available plot information does not establish how she relates to the other named characters.
Mila is a beautiful part-time model and sex worker in prewar Paris. She becomes the object of Alfred Katz’s love, while also maintaining a relationship with Félix, a committed Stalinist. Initially bored with political conflict, she eventually marries Alfred, but her divided loyalties contribute to the betrayal and tensions surrounding him.
Victorine is the central figure, first shown resisting her mother's control and facing sexual pressure from boys as she grows up. She seeks tenderness and introduces a young thief as her first love, then challenges what school and life in her neighborhood can offer. At twenty-five, she lives with Maurice and their two children while struggling to become independent from her nearby mother.
Francine is Albert's wife, a gifted musician frustrated by his absences and by the domestic life that confines her. Their marriage is strained by his affairs, yet Albert acknowledges that she saved him and helped make The First Man possible, revealing both their emotional bond and deep conflict.
Anouk Grinberg has 48 screen credits in a career dating back to 1977. Signature works include The Night of the 12th, My Man, The Last Patient. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
