Justice Is Done

Justice Is Done
French Poster
Directed by	André Cayatte
Produced by	Robert Dorfmann
Written by	André Cayatte (screenplay) Charles Spaak (dialogue & screenplay)
Starring	Valentine Tessier
Music by	Raymond Legrand
Cinematography	Jean Bourgoin
Edited by	Christian Gaudin
Distributed by	Coronis (France) Joseph Burstyn Inc. (US)
Release date	20 September 1950 (1950-09-20) (France) March 2, 1953 (1953-03-02) (US)
Country	France
Language	French

Justice Is Done (French: Justice est faite) is a 1950 French drama film directed by André Cayatte. It tackles the subject of euthanasia by depicting a court case in which a woman is tried for killing her terminally ill husband at his request. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Plot

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

Cast

Michel Auclair as Serge Cremer
Antoine Balpêtré as Le président du tribunal (as Balpétré)
Raymond Bussières as Félix Noblet, le 5ème juré
Jacques Castelot as Gilbert de Montesson, le 1er juré
Jean Debucourt as Michel Caudron, le 7ème juré (as Jean Debucourt Sociétaire de la Comédie Française)
Jean-Pierre Grenier as Jean-Luc Flavier, le 3ème juré (as J.P. Grenier)
Claude Nollier as Elsa Lundenstein (as Claude Nollier de la Comédie Française)
Marcel Pérès as Évariste Malingré, le 2ème juré (as Marcel Perès)
Noël Roquevert as Théodore Andrieux, le 6ème juré
Valentine Tessier as Marceline Micoulin, le 4ème juré
Jean d'Yd as Le père supérieur
Agnès Delahaie as Nicole Vaudrémont
Cécile Didier as Mademoiselle Popélier, l'hôtelière
Juliette Faber as Danièle Andrieux
Anouk Ferjac as Denise

Awards

The film is unique in that it won both the Golden Bear and the Golden Lion.

Wins

References

↑ "1st Berlin International Film Festival: Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2009-12-20.

External links

Justice Is Done on IMDb
Justice Is Done at AllMovie

Golden Bear-winning films

Four in a Jeep / Without Leaving an Address / In Beaver Valley / Justice Is Done / Cinderella (1951)
One Summer of Happiness (1952)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Die Ratten (1955)
Invitation to the Dance (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1958)
Les Cousins (1959)
El Lazarillo de Tormes (1960)
La Notte (1961)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
To Bed or Not to Bed / Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Dry Summer (1964)
Alphaville (1965)
Cul-de-sac (1966)
The Departure (1967)
Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
Early Works (1969)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Distant Thunder (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Adoption (1975)
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)
The Ascent (1977)
Ascensor / Las truchas / What Max Said (1978)
David (1979)
Heartland / Palermo or Wolfsburg (1980)
Deprisa, Deprisa (1981)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Ascendancy / La colmena (1983)
Love Streams (1984)
The Woman and the Stranger / Wetherby (1985)
Stammheim (1986)
The Theme (1987)
Red Sorghum (1988)
Rain Man (1989)
Music Box / Larks on a String (1990)
The House of Smiles (1991)
Grand Canyon (1992)
Woman Sesame Oil Maker / The Wedding Banquet (1993)
In the Name of the Father (1994)
The Bait (1995)
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1997)
Central Station (1998)
The Thin Red Line (1999)
Magnolia (2000)
Intimacy (2001)
Spirited Away / Bloody Sunday (2002)
In This World (2003)
Head-On (2004)
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (2005)
Grbavica (2006)
Tuya's Marriage (2007)
Elite Squad (2008)
The Milk of Sorrow (2009)
Honey (2010)
A Separation (2011)
Caesar Must Die (2012)
Child's Pose (2013)
Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Taxi (2015)
Fire at Sea (2016)
On Body and Soul (2017)

Golden Lion winning films
1949–1968	Manon (1949) Justice Is Done (1950) Rashomon (1951) Forbidden Games (1952) No award (1953) Romeo and Juliet (1954) Ordet (1955) No award (1956) Aparajito (1957) Rickshaw Man (1958) General Della Rovere / The Great War (1959) Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) Last Year at Marienbad (1961) Family Diary / Ivan's Childhood (1962) Hands over the City (1963) Red Desert (1964) Sandra (1965) The Battle of Algiers (1966) Belle de Jour (1967) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)
1980–2000	Atlantic City / Gloria (1980) Marianne and Juliane (1981) The State of Things (1982) First Name: Carmen (1983) A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984) Vagabond (1985) The Green Ray (1986) Au revoir les enfants (1987) The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988) A City of Sadness (1989) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990) Urga (1991) The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Short Cuts / Three Colours: Blue (1993) Vive L'Amour / Before the Rain (1994) Cyclo (1995) Michael Collins (1996) Fireworks (1997) The Way We Laughed (1998) Not One Less (1999) The Circle (2000)
2001–present	Monsoon Wedding (2001) The Magdalene Sisters (2002) The Return (2003) Vera Drake (2004) Brokeback Mountain (2005) Still Life (2006) Lust, Caution (2007) The Wrestler (2008) Lebanon (2009) Somewhere (2010) Faust (2011) Pietà (2012) Sacro GRA (2013) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014) From Afar (2015) The Woman Who Left (2016)

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