The Terror of Batignolles

The Terror of Batignolles

15 mins | Crime, Comedy | Dec. 31, 1931

An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.

The Terror of Batignolles

15 mins | Crime, Comedy | Dec. 31, 1931

The Terror of Batignolles
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.
Producers Les Films Osso
Original title La terreur des Batignolles
Directors Henri-Georges Clouzot
Writers Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast

Louis-Jacques Boucot

as Le cambrioleur

Germaine Aussey

as Elle

Jean Wall

as Lui