The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange pronouncedm.sj l French Le Crime de Monsieur Lange is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. An idyllic picture of a socialist France, the film is part social commentary and part romance.

When Batala returns from the dead, intending to reclaim the publishing company, Lange shoots and kills him the crime of the title. Lange and Valentine flee to escape the country, stopping at an inn near the Belgian border. Here, Valentine tells Langes story to a group of the inns patrons, who had recognized Lange as the murderer on the run and threatened to turn him in to the police. After the story is through, the men sympathize with Lange and decide to allow him to escape across the border to freedom.Renoir considered the film a collaboration between himself and First Groupe Octobre. It was based on an original idea by Renoir and Jean Castanier called Sur la cour. Prevert wrote script. The shooting lasteddays and took place from October to November 1935, at Trport and Paris in the studios of Billancourt. It was during the shooting of this film that Paul luard introduced Pablo Picasso to Dora Maar, who served as set photographer for the production. ........

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