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Bluebeard (1963)

Bluebeard (1963)

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The most shocking scandal Paris ever saw!

Release Date: 1963, January 25
Directors: Claude Chabrol
Countries: France, Italy
Production: Rome-Paris Films, C. C. Champion
Cast: Claude Mansard, Hildegard Knef, Danielle Darrieux, Mary Marquet, Sacha Briquet, Jean-Louis Maury, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel, Mario David, Catherine Rouvel

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

based on true story serial killer paris, france death penalty husband wife relationship social satire 1910s court case political intrigue  world war i true crime black humor womanizer tragicomedy french history treaty of versailles political propaganda