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Barrabas (film)

Barrabas
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Directed by Louis Feuillade
Produced by Louis Feuillade
Written by Louis Feuillade
Starring Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Cinematography Maurice Champreux , Georges Lafont, Léon Morizet
Edited by Maurice Champreux
Release date
1920
Country France
Language Silent film

Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film directed and written by Louis Feuillade.

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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