The Passerby (1982 film)

The Passerby
Directed by	Jacques Rouffio
Written by	Joseph Kessel (novel) Jacques Rouffio
Produced by	Artur Brauner Raymond Danon
Starring	Romy Schneider Michel Piccoli Helmut Griem
Cinematography	Jean Penzer
Edited by
Music by	Georges Delerue
Production companies	CCC Film Films A2
Distributed by	Parafrance Films Scotia International Filmverleih
Release date	14 April 1982
Running time	110 minutes
Countries	France West Germany
Language	French

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 Berlin and on location in Berlin and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jürgen Kiebach.

Synopsis[]

During an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, responsible for the extermination of his foster parents.

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Bibliography[]

• Annette Insdorf. Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

External links[]

• cinemovies.fr
• La Passante du Sans-Souci at IMDb
• The Passerby at Rotten Tomatoes

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