L'affaire Maurizius

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L'Affaire Maurizius
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Directed by Julien Duvivier
Produced by Franco London Films, Jolly Film
Written by Julien Duvivier
Starring Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Madeleine Robinson
Release date
 4 June 1954
Running time
 110 min
Country France, Italy
Language French


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Synopsis

Etzel, the son of the great prosecutor Andergast, wants to look over the file for the Maurizius case, in which the accused was condemned on the basis of suppositions. This was the case which allowed his father, 18 years earlier, to get a head start in his career, but Etzel has some doubts.

Cast

Daniel Gélin French actor

Daniel Yves Alfred Gélin was a French film and television actor.

Madeleine Robinson was a French actress. She was born to a French mother and Czech father near Paris. She was orphaned at the age of 14, and worked to support herself and her two younger brothers, but enjoyed watching plays. She then studied under Charles Dullin. Her first lead role was in Forty Little Mothers (1936). During the Occupation of France, she had a prominent role in Love Story and Lumière d'été, and The Bellman (1945). Because she had acted during the Occupation, Robinson found it difficult to get work afterwards, but again came to prominence in Une si jolie petite plage (1949). Madeleine Robinson won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress in 1959 for her role in À double tour. In 2001, she was awarded a Molière d'honneur for her contribution to the field.

Anton Walbrook actor

Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook.

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