Justice Is Done - Wikipedia

Justice Is Done
French Poster
Directed by	André Cayatte
Written by	André Cayatte (screenplay) Charles Spaak (dialogue & screenplay)
Produced by	Robert Dorfmann
Starring	Valentine Tessier
Cinematography	Jean Bourgoin
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Music by	Raymond Legrand
Distributed by	Coronis (France) Joseph Burstyn Inc. (US)
Release dates	20 September 1950 (1950-09-20) (France) March 2, 1953 (1953-03-02) (US)
Country	France
Language	French

Justice Is Done (French: Justice est faite) is a 1950 French drama film directed by André Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for killing her terminally ill husband at his request. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Plot

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

Cast

Michel Auclair as Serge Cremer
Antoine Balpêtré as Le président du tribunal (as Balpétré)
Raymond Bussières as Félix Noblet, le 5ème juré
Jacques Castelot as Gilbert de Montesson, le 1er juré
Jean Debucourt as Michel Caudron, le 7ème juré (as Jean Debucourt Sociétaire de la Comédie Française)
Jean-Pierre Grenier as Jean-Luc Flavier, le 3ème juré (as J.P. Grenier)
Claude Nollier as Elsa Lundenstein (as Claude Nollier de la Comédie Française)
Marcel Pérès as Évariste Malingré, le 2ème juré (as Marcel Perès)
Noël Roquevert as Théodore Andrieux, le 6ème juré
Valentine Tessier as Marceline Micoulin, le 4ème juré
Jean d'Yd as Le père supérieur
Agnès Delahaie as Nicole Vaudrémont
Cécile Didier as Mademoiselle Popélier, l'hôtelière
Juliette Faber as Danièle Andrieux
Anouk Ferjac as Denise

Awards

The film is unique in that it won both the Golden Bear and the Golden Lion.

Wins

References

^ "1st Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-20.

External links

Justice Is Done at IMDb
Justice Is Done at AllMovie

Awards for Justice Is Done

v t e Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear
1951–1975	Cinderella (1951) Four in a Jeep (1951) In Beaver Valley (1951) Justice Is Done (1951) Without Leaving an Address (1951) One Summer of Happiness (1952) The Wages of Fear (1953) Hobson's Choice (1954) Die Ratten (1955) Invitation to the Dance (1956) 12 Angry Men (1957) Wild Strawberries (1958) Les Cousins (1959) El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960) La Notte (1961) A Kind of Loving (1962) Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963) To Bed or Not to Bed (1963) Dry Summer (1964) Alphaville (1965) Cul-de-sac (1966) The Departure (1967) Who Saw Him Die? (1968) Early Works (1969) The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971) The Canterbury Tales (1972) Distant Thunder (1973) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) Adoption (1975)
1976–2000	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) The Ascent (1977) Ascensor (1978) Las truchas (1978) What Max Said (1978) David (1979) Heartland (1980) Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980) Deprisa, Deprisa (1981) Veronika Voss (1982) Ascendancy (1983) La colmena (1983) Love Streams (1984) Wetherby (1985) The Woman and the Stranger (1985) Stammheim (1986) The Theme (1987) Red Sorghum (1988) Rain Man (1989) Larks on a String (1990) Music Box (1990) The House of Smiles (1991) Grand Canyon (1992) The Wedding Banquet (1993) Woman Sesame Oil Maker (1993) In the Name of the Father (1994) The Bait (1995) Sense and Sensibility (1996) The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997) Central Station (1998) The Thin Red Line (1999) Magnolia (2000)
2001–present	Intimacy (2001) Bloody Sunday (2002) Spirited Away (2002) In This World (2003) Head-On (2004) U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005) Grbavica (2006) Tuya's Marriage (2007) Elite Squad (2008) The Milk of Sorrow (2009) Honey (2010) A Separation (2011) Caesar Must Die (2012) Child's Pose (2013) Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014) Taxi (2015) Fire at Sea (2016) On Body and Soul (2017) Touch Me Not (2018) Synonyms (2019) There Is No Evil (2020) Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) Alcarràs (2022) On the Adamant (2023) Dahomey (2024)

v t e Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
1946–1968	The Southerner (1946) The Strike (1947) Hamlet (1948) Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere (1959) The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary (1962) Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
1980–2000	Atlantic City (1980) Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Close to Eden (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts (1993) Three Colours: Blue (1993) Before the Rain (1994) Vive L'Amour (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Hana-bi (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)
2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) From Afar (2015) The Woman Who Left (2016) The Shape of Water (2017) Roma (2018) Joker (2019) Nomadland (2020) Happening (2021) All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Poor Things (2023)

v t e New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1937–1977	Mayerling (1937) Grand Illusion (1938) Harvest (1939) The Baker's Wife (1940) No Award (1941–1945) Rome, Open City (1946) To Live in Peace (1947) Paisan (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949) L'Amore (1950) Miracle in Milan (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) Justice Is Done (1953) Gate of Hell (1954) Umberto D. (1955) The Road (1956) Gervaise (1957) My Uncle (1958) The 400 Blows (1959) Hiroshima My Love (1960) The Sweet Life (1961) No Award (1962) 8½ (1963) That Man from Rio (1964) Juliet of the Spirits (1965) The Shop on Main Street (1966) The War Is Over (1967) War and Peace (1968) No Award (1969–1977)
1978–2000	Bread and Chocolate (1978) The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1979) My American Uncle (1980) Pixote (1981) Time Stands Still (1982) Fanny and Alexander (1983) A Sunday in the Country (1984) Ran (1985) The Decline of the American Empire (1986) My Life as a Dog (1987) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) Story of Women (1989) The Nasty Girl (1990) Europa Europa (1991) Raise the Red Lantern (1992) Farewell My Concubine (1993) Three Colours: Red (1994) Wild Reeds (1995) The White Balloon (1996) Ponette (1997) The Celebration (1998) All About My Mother (1999) Yi Yi (2000)
2001–present	In the Mood for Love (2001) And Your Mother Too (2002) City of God (2003) Bad Education (2004) 2046 (2005) Army of Shadows (2006) The Lives of Others (2007) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) Summer Hours (2009) Carlos (2010) A Separation (2011) Amour (2012) Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013) Ida (2014) Timbuktu (2015) Toni Erdmann (2016) BPM (Beats per Minute) (2017) Cold War (2018) Parasite (2019) Bacurau (2020) The Worst Person in the World (2021) EO (2022) Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

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