Henri-Desiré Landru
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Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef.
Landru est un film de procès français, réalisé par Claude Chabrol, sorti en 1963 . Synopsis. Ce film retrace la vie du tueur en série Henri Désiré Landru. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il séduit des femmes seules et riches.
- Claude Chabrol
- Françoise SaganClaude Chabrol
An Early Chabrol Movie with Hildegarde NEFF. At the time of the First World War, a Parisian father (Charles DENNER) murders wealthy women on an assembly line. The French director Claude CHABROL made this film in 1962.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Claude Chabrol
- 1963-01-25
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
The film is based on the true story of a notorious serial killer of the WWI era, Henri Landru, who was ultimately guillotined for murdering eleven people and disposing of their bodies in his kitchen stove.
- Claude Chabrol
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Claude Chabrol's Landru is the eighth feature film of this "New Wave" director, but only the fourth to reach our shores. Landru was apparently a Parisian lonelyhearts operator who murdered anywhere between eleven and two hundred smitten females during the First World War.
