Une Visite was the first short film made by 23-year-old François Truffaut

François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...

. It was filmed in Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze was a French actor, critic, screenwriter, and director...

’s apartment and its crew included Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....

, Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais

Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...

 and Truffaut's boyhood friend Robert Lachenay

Robert Lachenay

Robert Lachenay was a French film critic and film crew member. He was François Truffaut's childhood friend and the inspiration for the character René Bigey in the first two films of the Antoine Doinel film series....

. It was only briefly screened for friends and is the only Truffaut film that has never been available for public viewing since Truffaut was unhappy with it.

Truffaut usually told people that no copies of the film existed, but in 1982 he made a 35mm print of the film and screened it for friends.

Cast

• Francis Cognany
• Florence Doniol-Valcroze
• Laura Mauri
• Jean-José Richer