Barrabas (film)

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Barrabas
Directed by Louis Feuillade
Produced by Louis Feuillade
Written by Louis Feuillade
Starring Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Cinematography Maurice Champreux , Georges Lafont, Léon Morizet
Editing by Maurice Champreux
Release date(s) 1920
Country Flag of France France
Language Silent film
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Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film directed and written by Louis Feuillade.

[edit] Plot

Rudolph Strelitz, known as ‘Barrabas’, is the brutal leader of an underground gang who causes mayhem and destruction to the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was wrongly guillotined for the murder of Laure d’Hérigny, a mistress of a missing American millionaire. Later Claude Varèse’s sister, Françoise, is then abducted by the evil Dr Lucius, one of Barrabas’ henchmen.

[edit] Cast

  • Fernand Herrmann ... L'avocat Jacques Varèse
  • Édouard Mathé ... Raoul de Nérac
  • Gaston Michel ... Rudolph Strélitz
  • Georges Biscot ... Biscotin
  • Blanche Montel ... Françoise Varèse
  • Jeanne Rollette ... Biscotine
  • Albert Mayer ... Rougier
  • Edmund Breon ... Dr. Lucius (as Edmond Bréon)
  • Lugane ... Simne Delpierre
  • Lyne Stanka ... Laure d'Herigny
  • Violette Jyl ... Noëlle Maupré
  • Laurent Morléas ... Laugier
  • Olinda Mano ... La petite Odette


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