Crimson Curtain
Le Rideau rouge
Release: 1952-11-14
·Runtime: 84m
·★ 6.2
Drama
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Gaumont
Cast
Gérard Darrieu
as A stagehand in the theater
Robert Le Béal
as An actor
Marcel Pérès
as The machinist who makes the wind
Edmond Beauchamp
as The actor who plays King Duncan
Pierre Brasseur
as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
Michel Simon
as Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo
Jean Brochard
as Chief Inspector
Gabriel Gobin
Geneviève Morel
as Pierrette, l'habilleuse
Hubert Noël
André Versini
as A radio journalist
Noël Roquevert
as Sigurd
Michel Etcheverry
as An actor
Georges Demas
as A spectator at the theater / An extra in Macbeth (uncredited)
Eugène Stuber
as A soldier in Macbeth (uncredited)
Olivier Hussenot
as Deputy Inspector Gobinet
Robert Lombard
as An actor
Raymond Pierson
as An extra in Macbeth / A spectator at the theater (uncredited)
Daniel Cauchy
as Léon
Jacques Denoël
as An actor
Rudy Lenoir
as An actor (uncredited)
Jacques Dufilho
as An actor
Katherine Kath
as A witch in Macbeth
Robert Le Fort
André Numès
as Police Constable Vernier
Jacques Rispal
as The actor with the shaved head
Jacques Beauvais
as A spectator at the theater (uncredited)
Charles Bouillaud
as The policeman at the police station (uncredited)
Louis Bugette
