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We Are All Murderers is a french film of genre Drama directed by André Cayatte with Marcel Mouloudji
We Are All Murderers (1952)
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Add to a movie listWe Are All Murderers (French: Nous sommes tous des assassins, also known as Are We All Murderers?) is a 1952 French film written and directed by André Cayatte, a former attorney. It tells the story of René, a young man from the slums, trained by the French Resistance in World War II to kill Germans. He continues to kill long after the war has ended, as it is all he knows.
It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.
^ "Festival de Cannes: We Are All Murderers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
Synopsis
René Le Guen (Marcel Mouloudji) is a former resistance fighter trained as a young man as a professional killer. After World War II, he has no qualms in applying these skills and is arrested for murder. Convicted and condemned to death, he is held in a prison cell with other murderers sentenced to death. Men to be guillotined are taken out at night, so they wait in fear and only sleep after dawn. While Le Guen's lawyer (Claude Laydu) tries to achieve a pardon for his client, three of Le Guen's fellow inmates are executed, one by one, in the course of the film.Actors
Marcel Mouloudji
(René Le Guen)
Raymond Pellegrin
(Gino Bollini)
Antoine Balpêtré
(Dr. Albert Dutoit)
Claude Laydu
(Philippe Arnaud)
Roland Lesaffre
(Le détenu-coiffeur)
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