Film

Behind the Facade

Name: Behind the Facade
Director: Georges Lacombe
Released: 1939
Rating: 8
Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Jules Berry, Gaby Morlay, Elvira Popescu, Michel Simon

1939 · 85 min · ★ 8 · Dir. Georges Lacombe

The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love.