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Serenade to the Executioner (1951)
Directed by Jean Stelli
Overview
Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disappear to escape the police. But he wants revenge on his wife’s lover, Didier Laurent, a former RAF fighter pilot. Didier meets a young trapeze artist, Paula, with whom he falls in love. The happiness of the two young people is disturbed by the assassination of Irene, strangled by Schomberg who casts suspicion on Didier. Fortunately for them Commissioner Ulysses knows the truth and forces Schomberg to commit suicide.
Length 93 minutes
Actors
Paul Meurisse | Tilda Thamar | Antonin Berval | Julien Bertheau | Solange Varennes | Henry Murray | Jean Pignol | Lucien Hector | Lisa Dorel | Jacques Bougheriou | Gérard Landry | Véra Norman | Alfred Arlais | Henri Cote | Claire Genet | Marcel Melrac | Jacques Ory