Behind the Facade

Behind the Facade
  • Release date: 28 Sep 1944
  • Release year: 1944
  • Runtime: 85 minutes
  • Country: France
  • Keywords: ensemble cast, 1930s, murder, landlady, whodunit, murder investigation, janitor, late rent, bank cashier, stolen money
Plot:
The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love...
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