The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

80 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy | Jan. 24, 1936

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

80 mins | Drama, Crime, Comedy | Jan. 24, 1936

The Crime of Monsieur Lange
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Films Obéron
Original title Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Directors Jean Renoir
Writers Jean Castanier, Jacques Prévert, Jean Renoir

Cast

René Lefèvre

as Monsieur Lange

Florelle

as Valentine

Jules Berry

as Batala

Marcel Lévesque

as The Concierge

Odette Talazac

as The Concierge's Wife

Nadia Sibirskaïa

as Estelle

Henri Guisol

as The Son, Meunier

Maurice Baquet

as Charles, the Concierges' Son

Jacques Brunius

as M. Baigneur

Sylvain Itkine

as Inspector Itkine/Batala's Cousin

Marcel Duhamel

as The Foreman

Sylvia Bataille

as Edith

Jean Dasté

as The Model Maker