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1938 French film directed by Jean Grémillon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Strange Monsieur Victor (French: L'Étrange Monsieur Victor) is a 1938 French-German drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Raimu, Pierre Blanchar and Madeleine Renaud. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Hunte and Willy Schiller. The film was made by the German major studio Universum Film AG in collaboration with its French subsidiary. It was the thirteenth most popular film at the French box office in 1938.[1]
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Directed by | Jean Grémillon |
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Produced by | Raoul Ploquin |
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Cinematography | Werner Krien |
Music by | Roland Manuel |
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Distributed by | L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
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Language | French |
Victor Agardanne, a respectable businessman in Toulon, secretly works as a fence receiving stolen goods. When he is threatened with blackmail over his clandestine activities, he murders the man. He allows an innocent man to be arrested for the crime and be sent to a South American penal colony. When the wronged man escapes from prison, he heads back to Toulon to seek revenge against whoever really committed the murder.
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