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Bluebeard is a french film of genre Drama directed by Claude Chabrol released in USA on 9 april 1963 with Charles Denner
Bluebeard (1963)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 april 1963
Length 1h55
Directed by Claude Chabrol
OriginFrance
Themes Serial killer films
Rating63%
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.
It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I.
Synopsis
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.Actors
Charles Denner
(Henri Landru)
Michèle Morgan
(Mme Buisson)
Danielle Darrieux
(Mme Héon)
Stéphane Audran
(Fernande Segret)
Hildegard Knef
(German Widow)
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