The murderer of women in Paris

Movie
German title	The murderer of women in Paris
Original title	Landru
Country of production	France , Italy
original language	French
Publishing year	1962
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
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Director	Claude Chabrol
script	Françoise Sagan
production	Carlo Ponti Georges de Beauregard
music	Pierre Jansen
camera	Jean Rabier
cut	Jacques Gaillard
occupation
Charles Denner : Henri-Desiré Landru Stéphane Audran : Fernande Segret Danielle Darrieux : Berthe Heon Michèle Morgan : Célestine Buisson Hildegard Knef : Madame Ixe Françoise Lugagne : Catherine Landru Juliette Mayniel : Angèle Colomb Catherine Rouvel : Andrée Babelet Mary Marquet : Madame Guillin Denise Provence : Madame Laporte Serge Bento : Maurice Landru

The Woman Killer of Paris (original title: Landru , released in the United States as Bluebeard ) is a French film directed by Claude Chabrol in 1962. The film is based on the case of the serial killer Henri Désiré Landru .

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In order to be able to support his family, antique dealer Landru murders rows of well-heeled women whom he inherits. He was arrested in 1919 and executed in 1922 for the murder of ten women and a boy, although he never confessed.

Reviews

“ Conceived by Claude Chabrol and Francoise Sagan as a black comedy and linked to genocide legitimized by the state through the insertion of World War II scenes. A deliberately decadent game with basic human values. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Chabrol does not approach the subject in a documentary form, [...] but rather in the form of an exaggerated satire [...] here the 'few' murders of an individual are set in relation to the mass deaths of a world war. This film opened a phase in Chabrol's work in which, to the horror of the criticism, he turned to more commercial material. "

- Arne Laser : The big film lexicon: all top films from A – Z

See also

• Monsieur Verdoux - The Woman Killer of Paris (Charles Chaplin, 1947) 
• The Hatter's Fantomes (Claude Chabrol, 1982) 

Web links

• The Strangler Paris in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Comparison of the cut versions German version - Uncut of Der Frauenmörder von Paris at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film on June 21, 2010 8:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.
2. ^ The murderer of women in Paris. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Dirk Manthey, Jörg Altendorf, Willy Loderhose (eds.): The large film lexicon. All top films from A-Z . Second edition, revised and expanded new edition. Verlagsgruppe Milchstraße, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-89324-126-4 , p. 970 .