L'Affaire Maurizius / On Trial / Julien Duvivier / 1954 / film review

L'Affaire Maurizius

1954 Drama

Credits

Director: Julien Duvivier
Script: Julien Duvivier, Jakob Wassermann (novel)
Photo: Robert Lefebvre
Music: F.M. Jeanjean, Pierre Larrieu, Georges Van Parys
Cast: Madeleine Robinson (Elisabeth Maurizius), Daniel Gélin (Léonard Maurizius), Eleonora Rossi Drago (Anna Jahn), Charles Vanel (Wolf Andergast), Anton Walbrook (Grégoire Waremme), Claude Arlay, Pierre Asso (Le maître-chanteur), Paola Borboni (Mme Bobika), Berthe Bovy (La grand-mère), Jacques Chabassol (Etzel), Denis d’Inès (M. Maurizius), Jean d’Yd (Le président)
Country: France / Italy
Language: French
Runtime: 110 min; B&W
Aka: On Trial

Summary

Etzel, the son of prosecutor Wolf Andergast, discovers that eight years ago his father condemned Léonard Maurizius to a life sentence in prison for the murder of his wife Elisabeth. The case made Andergast famous but Etzel knows that Maurizius’s conviction depended on the dubious testimony of a witness named Grégoire Waremme. Determined to find out the truth, Etzel tracks Waremme down to Zurich and discovers that the evidence he gave at the trial was not the whole truth...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)

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