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Landru (film)






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Landru
Directed byClaude Chabrol
Written byFrançoise Sagan
Produced by
  • Carlo Ponti
  • Starring
  • Michèle Morgan
  • Danielle Darrieux
  • Hildegard Knef
  • CinematographyJean Rabier
    Edited byJacques Gaillard
    Music byPierre Jansen

    Production
    companies

    Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
    Rome Paris Films

    Distributed byLux Compagnie Cinématographique de France

    Release date

    • 25 January 1963 (1963-01-25)

    Running time

    119 minutes
    CountriesFrance
    Italy
    LanguageFrench

    Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan.[1][2] The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef.

    It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I.

    Plot

    [edit]

    During World War I, the seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villaatGambais, just outside Paris. There he kills them and burns their bodies. He then helps himself to his victims’ bank accounts, so that he can keep his wife, his mistress and his four children in the manner to which they have grown accustomed.

    Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law. Eloquent in his protestations of innocence, he is confident that no jury will condemn a man of such intellect and breeding.

    Cast

    [edit]
  • Danielle Darrieux - Berthe Héon
  • Michèle Morgan - Celestine Buisson
  • Juliette Mayniel - Anna Collomb
  • Stéphane Audran - Fernande Segret
  • Mary Marquet - Mme. Guillin
  • Pierre Vernier as a magistrate
  • Henri Attal
  • Serge Bento - Maurice Landru
  • André Fouché - Doctor Paul
  • Sacha Briquet - Assistant prosecutor
  • Robert Burnier - Presiding judge
  • Mario David - Prosecutor
  • Françoise Lugagne - Mme. Landru
  • Claude Mansard - Defense Attorney
  • Jean-Louis Maury - Commissioner Belin
  • Jean-Pierre Melville - Georges Mandel
  • Hildegard Knef - Madame Ixe
  • Denise Provence - Mme. Laporte
  • Raymond Queneau - Georges Clemenceau
  • Catherine Rouvel - Andrée Babelay
  • Dominique Zardi - Gendarme
  • References

    [edit]
    1. ^ Wilkins, Budd. "Two by Claude Chabrol on Kino Lorber Blu-ray: Bluebeard and Blue Panther". Slant. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  • ^ Sarris, Andrew (18 April 1963). "Films". The Village Voice. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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