Landru
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Written by	Françoise Sagan
Produced by	Georges de Beauregard Carlo Ponti
Starring	Charles Denner Michèle Morgan Danielle Darrieux Hildegard Knef
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Edited by	Jacques Gaillard
Music by	Pierre Jansen
Production companies	Compagnia Cinematografica Champion Rome Paris Films
Distributed by	Lux Compagnie Cinématographique de France
Release date	25 January 1963 (1963-01-25)
Running time	119 minutes
Countries	France Italy
Language	French

Landru (US title: Bluebeard) is a 1963 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan.^[1][2] The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef.

It was based on the story of French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I.

Plot

During World War I, the seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais, just outside Paris. There he kills them and burns their bodies. He then helps himself to his victims’ bank accounts, so that he can keep his wife, his mistress and his four children in the manner to which they have grown accustomed.

Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law. Eloquent in his protestations of innocence, he is confident that no jury will condemn a man of such intellect and breeding.

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