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Directed by | André Cayatte |
Written by | André Cayatte Charles Spaak |
Produced by | François Carron |
Starring | Marcel Mouloudji Raymond Pellegrin Claude Laydu |
Cinematography | Jean Bourgoin |
Edited by | Paul Cayatte |
Music by | Raymond Legrand |
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Distributed by | L'Alliance Générale de Distribution Cinématographique |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
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.[1][2] 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.[3]