The crime of Mr. Lange

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Movie
German title The crime of Mr. Lange
Original title Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1936
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jean Renoir
script Jean Renoir
Jean Castanyer
Jacques Prévert
production Films Obéron
music Joseph Kosma
Jean Wiener
camera Jean Bachelet
cut Marthe Huguet
Marguerite Renoir
occupation

The crime of Mr. Lange (Original title: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange ) is a French feature film by Jean Renoir from 1936 .

action

Together with his lover Valentine, Lange finds refuge in a small hotel on the Belgian border. The other guests suspect that Lange is the wanted murderer and want to hand him over to the police. Valentine tells you his story:

Amédée Lange, an adventure novelist, is writing a western about the cowboy Arizona Jim for newspaper publisher Batala . However, Batala is an unscrupulous and cynical publisher. Unable to pay his debts, Batala flees. The train on which he escapes has a serious accident and he is pronounced dead. The employees of Batala then decide to organize themselves into a cooperative and publish a new magazine with Arizona Jim as the main character, which is a great success. At the same time, Lange and his neighbor Valentine fall in love. But some time later, Batala returns, who had taken advantage of the train accident to steal the identity of a priest. He not only demands his share of the profits, he also wants to take over the publishing house again and smash the cooperative. A little later, Lange shoots him to protect the cooperative. The victim was not only an exploiter as a businessman, but also completely without character in his private life, his death more the result of self-defense than of planned murder.

After the guests hear the story, the men sympathize with Lange and decide to allow him and Valentine to flee across the border to freedom.

background

The film was shot from October to November 1935 in Le Tréport , a small town in the Seine-Maritime department in Normandy .

The crime of Mr Lange was premiered in France on January 24, 1936. On June 1, 1968, the film was shown for the first time on German television by WDR .

Excerpts from the film are shown in the TV documentary Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II , produced in 1993 by the renowned film critic David Thomson .

criticism

“In his early masterpiece, Renoir conjures up the cohesion of the 'working class' […] without falling into flat class struggle clichés. An original, accurate tragicomedy with charming scenes from the French working class and petty bourgeoisie of those years. "

- Lexicon of international film

“French entertainment film from 1935, which shows, from a distance of humor, the machinations of a corrupt publisher and the efforts of his employees to rescue the bankrupt company. The focus of the direction was not on the logical development of the plot, but on the nuanced play of the characters and its visual design. Interesting for adults. "

- Protestant film observer

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The crime of Mr. Lange. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Evangelical Press Association, Munich, Review No. 285/1968.