The Crime of Monsieur Lange
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| Directed by | Jean Renoir |
| Produced by | André Halley des Fontaines Jean Renoir |
| Written by | Jean Castanyer Jacques Prévert Jean Renoir |
| Starring | René Lefèvre Florelle Jules Berry Marcel Lévesque Odette Talazac Henri Guisol Maurice Baquet |
| Release date(s) | 1936 |
| Running time | 80 min |
| Language | French |
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (original French title: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative.
Imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement, Front Populaire, which would have a major political victory that year, the film chronicles the story of M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company who dreams of writing Western stories. He gets his chance when the salacious head of the company disappears and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim--whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. The film also sweetly depicts Lange's romance with his neighbor, Valentine (Florelle).
An idyllic picture of a socialist France, the film is part social commentary and part romance.
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