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The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange

1936·79'

Jean Renoir

Frankrijk

★ 7.1

Letterboxd TMDB #52677

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?

Stills

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Cast

René Lefèvre René Lefèvre Monsieur Lange
Florelle Florelle Valentine
Jules Berry Jules Berry Batala
Marcel Lévesque Marcel Lévesque Concierge
Odette Talazac Odette Talazac Concierge's Wife
Nadia Sibirskaïa Nadia Sibirskaïa Estelle
Henri Guisol Henri Guisol Son Meunier
Maurice Baquet Maurice Baquet Charles, concierges' son
Jacques Brunius Jacques Brunius Mr. Baigneur
Sylvain Itkine Sylvain Itkine Inspector Itkine / Batala's Cousin
Marcel Duhamel Marcel Duhamel Foreman
Sylvia Bataille Sylvia Bataille Edith

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