The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)

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France

Feature Film

Original Title: Le crime de Monsieur Lange

Director: Jean Renoir

Writers: Jean Renoir, Jacques Prévert, Jean Castanyer

Cinematographer: Jean Bachelet

Composers: Joseph Kosma, Jean Wiener

Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque, Odette Talazac, Henri Guisol, Maurice Baquet, J.B. Brunius

A workers' cooperative revives a flagging publishing house, which it took over when its crooked, lecherous owner died in a train wreck; but when a face from their past reappears, threatening to put an end to this socialist paradise, proceedings take a decided turn for the worse, in this minor but thoroughly entertaining leftist work from Renoir. Iain.Stott