
Crimson Curtain
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Cast

Gérard Darrieu
A stagehand in the theater

Madeleine Geoffroy
An actor

Robert Le Béal
An actor

Rudy Lenoir
An actor (uncredited)

Olivier Hussenot
Deputy Inspector Gobinet

Daniel Cauchy
Léon

Jacques Denoël
An actor

Michel Etcheverry
An actor

Robert Lombard
An actor

Michel Simon
Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo

Jean Brochard
Chief Inspector

Hubert Noël

Jacques Rispal
The actor with the shaved head

Georges Demas
A spectator at the theater / An extra in Macbeth (uncredited)

Michel Herbault
Laurent, an actor

André Versini
A radio journalist

Edmond Beauchamp
The actor who plays King Duncan

Robert Le Fort

André Numès
Police Constable Vernier

Marcel Pérès
The machinist who makes the wind

Jacques Dufilho
An actor

Gabriel Gobin

Geneviève Morel
Pierrette, l'habilleuse

Eugène Stuber
A soldier in Macbeth (uncredited)

Pierre Brasseur
Ludovic Arn / Macbeth

Jacques Beauvais
A spectator at the theater (uncredited)

Louis Bugette

Katherine Kath
A witch in Macbeth

Noël Roquevert
Sigurd

Charles Bouillaud
The policeman at the police station (uncredited)