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Directed by | Julien Duvivier |
Written by | Julien Duvivier |
Produced by | Franco London Films, Jolly Film |
Starring | Daniel Gélin, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Madeleine Robinson |
Cinematography | Robert Lefebvre |
Edited by | Marthe Poncin |
Music by | Pierre Larrieu Georges Van Parys |
Color process | Black and white |
Production companies | Franco London Films Jolly Film |
Distributed by | Gaumont |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
On Trial (French: L'Affaire Maurizius; Italian: Il caso Mauritius) is a 1954 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Daniel Gélin, Madeleine Robinson and Anton Walbrook. It was based on a 1928 novel by Jakob Wassermann.
Etzel, the son of the great prosecutor Andergast, wants to look over the file for the Maurizius case, in which the accused was condemned on the basis of suppositions. This was the case which allowed his father, 18 years earlier, to get a head start in his career, but Etzel has some doubts.