The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1935)

Original title

Le Crime de Monsieur Lange

Directed by

Jean Renoir

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 20m

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 100 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of workers at a small publishing house decide to run the business as a cooperative. They find success and happiness, but a shady boss from the past returns to threaten their new way of life.

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What happens

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (French: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange [lə kʁim də məsjø lɑ̃ʒ]) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. Imbued with the spirit of the communist/socialist Popular Front, which would score a major political victory in 1936, the film is an idyllic picture of a socialist France and is both a social commentary and a romance. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It was distributed by the French subsidiary of Warner Brothers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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