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