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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Directed by Jean Renoir
Overview
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers… One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
Length 80 minutes
Actors
René Lefèvre | Florelle | Jules Berry | Marcel Lévesque | Odette Talazac | Nadia Sibirskaïa | Henri Guisol | Maurice Baquet | Jacques B. Brunius | Sylvain Itkine | Marcel Duhamel | Sylvia Bataille | Jean Dasté | Henri Saint-Isle | Pierre Huchet | René Génin | Max Morise | Charbonnier | Edmond Beauchamp | Jean Bremaud | Guy Decomble | Paul Demange | Yves Deniaud | Claire Gérard | Paul Grimault | Michel Kovachevitch | Fabien Loris | Marcel Lupovici