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La Tête d'un homme (1933)

La Tête d'un homme poster
Directed by
Julien Duvivier
Genre
crime film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
U
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police detective investigates a murder in 1930s Paris. He tracks down a suspect and tries to prove his guilt.

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What happens

A Man's Neck (French: La tête d'un homme) is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès.It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simenon, featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret. It was the third film in cinema history to feature the Maigret character. It was remade in 1950 as The Man on the Eiffel Tower. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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