Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

After they have created a menu for the Queen of England, four of Europe’s most famous chefs are killed one after another using their very own recipes. Natasha O’Brien is the pastry chef and knows that her name is the last one on the deathlist, so she has a little time to save her life. She turns to her ex-husband Robby Ross, a wealthy fast-food tycoon to support him with his latest project, but then it dawns on her, that he could very well be the murderer.

If history knew any fairness Ted Kotcheff’s exquisite murder menu of a film, with its splendid cast of Robert Morley, George Segal, Jaqueline Bisset and Philippe Noiret would be considered one of the greatest films of the fashionable 70s cinema. After all several directors tried their hand at the ambiguous comedy whodunit. But none of them managed to bring the suspense of Agatha Christie and the black humor of the Ealing-school into such an harmonious union. Everything is presented in just the exact amount – the free flowing dialogues, the witty lines, the European flair, the grizzly details of the murders. All these ingredients are so finely tuned and perfectly balanced that this delicacy of a film truly melts on the tongue. –Oldenburg Film Festival