The Crime of Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir on display at Theatre Campo Alegre

The Crime of Monsieur Lange (Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir portraying an idyllic picture of a socialist France. It is about a publish house that becomes a cooperative.

M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company dreams of writing Western stories. He has his opportunity when the head of the publisher, Batala (Jules Berry), fakes his own death and abandons the company. Workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim. At the same time, Lange and his neighbour, Valentine (Florelle), fall in love.

The film is part social commentary and part romance, imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement in France at the time the film was made.

On show at Municipal Theatre Campo Alegre.

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