Landru
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| Directed by | Claude Chabrol |
| Produced by | Georges de Beauregard Carlo Ponti |
| Written by | Françoise Sagan |
| Starring | Charles Denner Michèle Morgan Danielle Darrieux Hildegard Knef |
| Music by | Pierre Jansen |
| Cinematography | Jean Rabier |
| Editing by | Jacques Gaillard |
| Studio | Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Rome Paris Films |
| Release date(s) | January 25, 1963 |
| Running time | 115 min |
| Country | Italy / France |
| Language | French |
Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. 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.
[edit] Plot
During World War I, a 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 villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where 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.
[edit] Cast
- Charles Denner - Henri Désiré Landru
- Danielle Darrieux - Berthe Héon
- Michèle Morgan - Celestine Buisson
- Juliette Mayniel - Anna Collomb
- Stéphane Audran - Fernande Segret
- Mary Marquet - Mme. Guillin
- Henri Attal
- Serge Bento - Maurice Landru
- Sacha Briquet - Assistant prosecutor
- Robert Burnier - Presiding judge
- Claude Chabrol
- 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 - Clemenceau
- Catherine Rouvel - Andrée Babelot
- Dominique Zardi - Gendarme
[edit] External links
- Landru at Films de France
- Landru at the Internet Movie Database
- Landru at AllRovi
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