Arthur Meursault
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The Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero) is a 1967 film by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, based on Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger, with Marcello Mastroianni. [1]
A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities. Director. Luchino Visconti. Writers. Albert Camus. Suso Cecchi D'Amico. Georges Conchon. Stars. Marcello Mastroianni. Anna Karina. Bernard Blier. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Added by 9.0K users. 25 User reviews. 15 Critic reviews. Awards.
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
The Stranger (1969) - A Masterpiece of Existentialist CinemaDirected by Luchino Visconti, "The Stranger" (1969) is a cinematic adaptation of Albert Camus' re...
In this intense adaptation of the classic Albert Camus novel, Arthur Meursault (Marcello Mastroianni) is a bored clerical worker in 1930s Algeria who is completely isolated from his surroundings ...
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In pre-World War II Algiers, Arthur Meursault, a French clerk, learns of his mother's death; he attends the funeral but feels removed from grief, conscious only of the blinding sun.
In an atmosphere of political tension when the French still control Algiers, an Algerian is killed on the beach and a Frenchman who has lived in Algiers all his life is arrested for the murder. A trial takes place. One of the witnesses was at the funeral of Arthur Meursault's mother.
