Behind the Facade
1939 film
- Max Kolpé
- Georges Lacombe
- Yves Mirande
Pierre O'Connell
- Lucien Baroux
- Jules Berry
- André Lefaur
Robert Juillard
Production
company
company
Régina Films
ENIC (Italy)
Release date
- 14 March 1939 (1939-03-14)
Running time
Behind the Facade (French: Derrière la façade) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande and starring Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry and André Lefaur.[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris.
Synopsis
When the owner of an apartment block is found murdered, two policeman investigate the lives of the various tenants who live there.
Cast
- Lucien Baroux as Le commissaire Boucheron
- Jules Berry as Alfrédo D'Avila
- André Lefaur as Corbeau
- Gaby Morlay as Gaby
- Elvire Popesco as Madame Rameau
- Michel Simon as Picking
- Betty Stockfeld as L'anglaise
- Erich von Stroheim as Eric
- Simone Berriau as Lydia
- Missia as Joséphine Picking
- Raymond Segard as Robert Bernier
- Marcel Orluc as Gérard Bernier
- Jean Daurand as Le télégraphiste
- Elmire Vautier as Marie, l'habilleuse de Lydia
- Lina Darwils as Une locataire
- Robert Ozanne as Le brigadier
- Claude Sainval as Le gigolo de Gaby
- Raymone as La bonne de Madame Mathieu
- Jean Joffre as Monsieur Martin, l'aveugle
- Lise Courbet as Paulette
- Andrex as André Laurent, l'employé de banque
- Julien Carette as Le soldat
- Aimé Clariond as Le président Bernier
- Jacques Dumesnil as Albert Durant, le jouer de poker
- Paul Faivre as Le concierge
- Marcel Simon as Jules, l'amant de Gaby
- Gaby Sylvia as Madeleine Martin
- Gabrielle Dorziat as Madame Bernier
- Jacques Baumer as Lambert
- Marguerite Moreno as La sous-directrice
- Georges Bever as Un chauffeur de taxi
- Rivers Cadet as Un agent
- Roger Doucet
- Hélène Flouest
- Georges Malkine as Un chauffeur de taxi
- Franck Maurice as Un agent
- Yves Mirande as Le clochard sur le banc
- Robert Moor as Un agent
- Henri Nassiet as Petit rôle
- Jean Wiener
References
- ^ Aitken p.511
Bibliography
- Aitken, Ian. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film. Routledge, 2013.
External links
- Behind the Facade at IMDb
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Films directed by Georges Lacombe
- Bubble Gum (1931)
- A Telephone Call (1932)
- That Scoundrel Morin (1932)
- The Invisible Woman (1933)
- Youth (1934)
- The Scandalous Couple (1935)
- The Happy Road (1936)
- The Heart Disposes (1936)
- Café de Paris (1938)
- Behind the Facade (1939)
- Musicians of the Sky (1940)
- Paris-New York (1940)
- They Were Twelve Women (1940)
- The Last of the Six (1941)
- Montmartre (1941)
- The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942)
- Monsieur La Souris (1942)
- The Stairs Without End (1943)
- Florence Is Crazy (1944)
- Land Without Stars (1946)
- Martin Roumagnac (1946)
- Convicted (1948)
- Prelude to Glory (1950)
- The Night Is My Kingdom (1951)
- The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
- The Call of Destiny (1953)
- Their Last Night (1953)
- The Light Across the Street (1956)
- White Cargo (1958)
- My Darned Father (1958)
- L'âme de Nicolas Synders (1961)
- L'âne et le boeuf (1962)
- Message pour Margaret (1964)
- La fabrique du roi (1965)
- Le réquisitionnaire (1968)
- Pierre de Ronsard, gentilhomme vendômois (1970)
- Les mensonges (1971)
- Une atroce petite musique (1973)
- Un souper chez Lauzun (1973)
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