We Are All Murderers (1952)

Original title

Nous sommes tous des assassins

Directed by

André Cayatte

Genre

drama film

Country

France, Italy

Runtime

1h 50m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man from the slums is trained by the French Resistance to kill Germans during World War II. After the war he keeps killing because it is the only skill he has.

grimbleaksomberthought-provokingharrowinggroundedunsentimental

What happens

We Are All Murderers (French: Nous sommes tous des assassins, Italian: Siamo tutti assassini) is a 1952 French-Italian crime drama film written and directed by André Cayatte and starring Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin and Claude Laydu. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It tells the story of René, a young man from the slums, trained by the French Resistance in World War II to kill Germans. He continues to kill long after the war has ended, as it is all he knows. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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