Landru
Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French motion picture drama 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.
Cast
- Alain Quercy
- André Badin
- André Fouché
- Catherine Rouvel
- Charles Bayard
- Charles Denner
- Christian Lude
- Claude Mansard
- Danielle Darrieux
- Denise Provence
- Diane Lepvrier
- Dominique Zardi
- Franck Maurice
- Françoise Lugagne
- Henri Attal
- Hildegard Knef
- Jacques Robiolles
- Jean Blancheur
- Jean-Louis Maury
- Jean-Marie Arnoux
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Juliette Mayniel
- Louis Saintève
- Mario David
- Mary Marquet
- Michel Charrel
- Michèle Morgan
- Philippe Castelli
- Pierre Vernier
- Raymond Queneau
- Robert Burnier
- Sacha Briquet
- Serge Bento
- Stéphane Audran
- Véronique Vendell
More details
| 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 |
| theme | biographical black comedy serial killer |