Barrabas (film)
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Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film directed and written by Louis Feuillade.
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Plot
Rudolph Strelitz, known as ‘Barrabas’, is the brutal leader of an underground gang who causes mayhem and destruction to the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was wrongly guillotined for the murder of Laure d’Hérigny, a mistress of a missing American millionaire. Later Claude Varèse’s sister, Françoise, is then abducted by the evil Dr Lucius, one of Barrabas’ henchmen.
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Cast
- Fernand Herrmann ... L'avocat Jacques Varèse
- Édouard Mathé ... Raoul de Nérac
- Gaston Michel ... Rudolph Strélitz
- Georges Biscot ... Biscotin
- Blanche Montel ... Françoise Varèse
- Jeanne Rollette ... Biscotine
- Albert Mayer ... Rougier
- Edmund Breon ... Dr. Lucius (as Edmond Bréon)
- Lugane ... Simne Delpierre
- Lyne Stanka ... Laure d'Herigny
- Violette Jyl ... Noëlle Maupré
- Laurent Morléas ... Laugier
- Olinda Mano ... La petite Odette
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