Amédée Lange
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M. Lange is a mild-mannered writer of Western stories for a publishing company. Batala, the salacious owner of the company, flees his creditors. When his train crashes, he takes the opportunity to fake his own death. The abandoned workers, with the help of an eccentric creditor, form a cooperative.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange: Directed by Jean Renoir. With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque. The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?
Director Jean Renoir's social commentary, heavily influenced by the French political spirit of the 1930s, concerns Amédée Lange (René Lefèvre), a publishing house clerk who pens Western dime ...
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Dec 6, 2011 · Batala is an immensely seductive character, especially to women, and he uses his charm shamelessly. to borrow, cadge, swindle money from everyone-- friends, lovers, business associates, clients,...
Lange (1936; The Crime of Monsieur Lange ), which, in contrast to the rather stilted manner of the first years of sound films, foretells a reconquest of the true moving-picture style, especially in use of improvisation and of montage—the art of editing, or cutting, to achieve certain associations….
The titular crime is a murder committed by Amédée Lange (René Lefèvre), a low-level publishing employee and a naïve dreamer whose pulp fiction is a hit. His lover, Valentine...
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris.
Dec 22, 2017 · Jean Renoir creates an elegantly fluid and deceptively lyrical, yet trenchant, complexly interwoven, and socially incisive portrait of exploitation, community, mutualism, and justice in The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange is a film directed by Jean Renoir with René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque .... Year: 1936. Original title: Le crime de Monsieur Lange. Synopsis: A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier.
Monsieur Lange is a publishing house clerk who writes pulp Western novels in his spare time. When his untrustworthy boss Batala avoids his debt collectors by pretending to be dead, Lange and his co-workers take over the business and thrive on the popularity of Lange’s stories, until Batala returns….
