| The Mushroom | |
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| Directed by | Marc Simenon |
| Written by | Alphonse Boudard Marc Simenon |
| Starring | Mylène Demongeot Alida Valli |
| Cinematography | Marcel Combes |
| Music by | Zoo |
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| Language | French |
The Mushroom (French: Le champignon, Italian: L'assassino colpisce all'alba, also known as The Murderer Strikes at Dawn, The Killer Strikes at Dawn and L’assassin frappe à l’aube) is a 1970 French-Italian crime film written and directed by Marc Simenon.
A physician, growing distant from his workaholic wife, befriends an artist. After a night spent drinking and taking hallucinogenic mushroom with the artist, the physician discovers that his wife had died, and begins to question what took place.