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
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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.