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The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 24, 1936

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Drama, Crime, Comedy

User Score

70%

Original Title

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange

Production Companies

Films Obéron

Director

Jean Renoir

Description

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?