Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Sep 13, 1978

1h 52m

★ 6.1

The Mystery-Comedy That Tastes as Good as It Looks

Overview

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Geria Productions

Aldrich Company

Bavaria Film

Lorimar Motion Pictures

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Trailers

Cast

Robby Ross

George Segal

Natasha O'Brien

Jacqueline Bisset

Maximilian Van Devere

Robert Morley

Louis Kohner

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Claude Moulineau

Philippe Noiret

August Grandvilliers

Jean Rochefort

Ravello

Gigi Proietti

Fausto Zoppi

Stefano Satta Flores

Beecham

Madge Ryan

Blodgett

Frank Windsor

St. Claire

Peter Sallis

Doyle

Tim Barlow

Gunder Jomann lives in the small place of Elvestad. He prepares to receive his wife, Poona Bai, who he met and married in India. Gunder gets delayed when his sister is injured in a car accident and he sends the local taxidriver to transport her to him at the hospital but the chauffeur do not find her. The following day the body of a foreign woman is found on a meadow, few meters from Gunders house. Inspector Konrad Sejer tries to unravel the mystery and discoveres soon that the dead person is Gunder's wife, Poona. Who killed her, and why?

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