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	Harry Baur	Commissaire Maigret
	Valéry Inkijinoff	Radek
	Gina Manès	Edna Reichberg
	Alexandre Rignault	Joseph Heurtin
	Gaston Jacquet	Willy Ferrière
	Louis Gauthier	Le Juge
	Henri Echourin	Inspecteur Ménard
	Marcel Bourdel	Inspecteur Janvier
	Frédéric Munié	L'Avocat
	Armand Numès	Le Directeur de la Police
	René Alexandre	Le Chauffeur
	Charles Camus	L'Hotelier
	Missia	La Chanteuse des Rues
	Oléo	La Femme de Chambre
	Line Noro	La Fille
	Damia	La Femme Lasse
	Jean Brochard	Small Role
	Jérôme Goulven	Witness
	Jane Pierson	Cook
	René Stern	Le gérant de l'Éden

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Director	Julien Duvivier
Writer	Georges Simenon, Louis Delaprée, Pierre Calmann, Julien Duvivier
Producer	Charles Delac, Marcel Vandal
Musician	Jacques Belasco
Photography	Armand Thirard

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Remembered primarily for directing the classic crime drama Pépé le moko, Julien Duvivier was one of the finest filmmakers working in France in the 1930s. Thanks to a formidable innate understanding of the cinematic medium, Duvivier made the transition from silents to talkies with ease, marrying his expressive camera work to a strikingly inventive use of sound with a singular dexterity. His deeply shadowed, fatalistic early sound films David Golder and La tête d’un homme anticipate the poetic realist style that would come to define the decade in French cinema and, together with the small-town family drama Poil de Carotte and the swooning tale of love and illusion Un carnet de bal, showcase his stunning versatility. These four films—all featuring the great stage and screen actor Harry Baur—are collected here, each evidence of an immense and often overlooked cinematic talent.

This meticulously crafted adaptation stars Harry Baur as novelist Georges Simenon’s indelible creation Inspector Maigret, investigating the odd circumstances surrounding the killing of a wealthy American woman in Paris. Every bit Baur’s equal is the Russian émigré actor Valéry Inkijinoff, cast as a reptilian, nihilistic medical student. Julien Duvivier gives the viewer one evocative image after another, constructing a work of sinister beauty.

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