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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint poster
Directed by
Louis Daquin
Genre
crime film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man arrives in a small port town to claim an unexpected inheritance. He soon becomes entangled in a web of family secrets and a hidden crime.

mysteriousslow-pacedatmosphericnoirishsuspensefulintriguingretro

What happens

Strange Inheritance or The Traveller on All Saints' Day (French: Le voyageur de la Toussaint, Italian: Il viaggiatore d'Ognissanti) is a 1943 French-Italian mystery film directed by Louis Daquin and starring Assia Noris, Jules Berry, Gabrielle Dorziat and Guillaume de Sax. It is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same title by Georges Simenon. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. It was made as a co-production between Occupied France and Fascist Italy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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