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The Passerby (original French title: La passante du Sans-Souci, "The Passerby of Sans-Souci") is a 1982 French-West German drama film directed by Jacques Rouffio, based on the 1936 novel on the same name by Joseph Kessel, and starring Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli. [1] It was Schneider's last film. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in ...
Apr 14, 1982 · The Passerby: Directed by Jacques Rouffio. With Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Dominique Labourier. Being imprisoned for murdering a politician, husband tells his wife why he did this.
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- 1982-04-14
A Film from the Artur Brauner Collection at Our Library. The scene is Paris, 1980. The Paraguayan Ambassador is shot. While in custody, Max Baumstein tells his wife Lina the facts behind the crime: His father was murdered by Nazi thugs and he himself was taken in by a Mr. and Mrs. Wiener. Following the arrest of her husband, Elsa Wiener fled to ...
Max Baumstein, the highly esteemed president of humanitarian organization "International Solidarity", kills the Paraguayan ambassador, Federico Lego after a short rendez-vous. Arrested, he explains the reason: in 1933, when still a child, he was martyred by the Nazis because he was a Jew and his father was shot before his eyes. Adopted… more.
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- Jacques Rouffio
User Reviews. Having watched a lot of movies, viewers get better at evaluating their strong and weak points, they can notice the flaws and strengths more easily. And if movie buffs watch LA PASSANTE DU SANS SOUCI, their reactions are usually diverse. It does not occur to be a great production nor a wonderful film that one could watch all over ...
Sep 12, 2003 · The Passerby. (La Passante du Sans-Souci) Screening on Film. Directed by Jacques Rouffio. With Romy Schneider, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem. France/West Germany, 1982, 35mm, color, 110 min. French with English subtitles. When noted human rights activist Max Baumstein (Piccoli) is tried for the murder of a South American politician, he is forced ...
It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis. Source : IMDb.
