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The Crime of Monsieur Lange is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Renoir with René Lefèvre
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
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Add to a movie listThe Crime of Monsieur Lange ([mə.sjø lɑ̃ʒ]; French: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. An idyllic picture of a socialist France, the film is part social commentary and part romance.
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Imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement, Popular Front, which would have a major political victory that year, the film chronicles the story of M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company who dreams of writing Western stories. He gets his chance when Batala (Jules Berry), the salacious head of the company, fakes his own death and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim — whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. At the same time, Lange and his neighbor, Valentine (Florelle), fall in love.Actors
René Lefèvre
(Monsieur Lange)
René Génin
(Client at the Auberge)
Florelle
(Valentine)
Jules Berry
(Batala)
Maurice Baquet
(Charles, concierges' son)
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