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Landru 1963

type: Movie

language: French

duration: 120 min

genre: drama

theme: biographical

director: Claude Chabrol

Score: 4 / 10

Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French-Italian drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef.

Plot

During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies. He then helps himself to his victims’ bank accounts so that he can keep his wife, his mistress and his four children in the manner to which they have grown accustomed. Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law. Eloquent in his protestations of innocence, he is confident that no jury will condemn a man of such intellect and breeding.

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author	Françoise Sagan
director	Claude Chabrol
editor	Jacques Gaillard
events	serial killer
genre	comedy crime drama saga
keywords	assumed name bank account breed capture murder world war i
musicBy	Pierre Jansen
producer	Carlo Ponti Georges de Beauregard
productionCompany	Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Rome Paris Films
publisher	Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
theme	biographical black comedy serial killer