We Are All Murderers

1952 [FRENCH]

Crime / Drama

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IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 444 444

capital punishment social critique

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Plot summary

Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

Hypocrite Society

In World War II, the illiterate, starving and alcoholic twenty years old René Le Guen (Marcel Mouloudji) fights to survive and lives with his dysfunctional family in a slum. The French Resistance invites and teaches him to kill Germans and traitors. When the war ends, he continues to kill and is arrested, judged and sentenced to death in the guillotine. While in prison waiting for a possible presidential pardon claimed by his lawyer, he meets other prisoners also waiting for the dishonored death."Nous Sommes Tous des Assassins" is the most impressive movie against capital sentence that I have ever seen. The lawyer André Cayatte wrote and directed this film where the defendant is actually the hypocrisy of the whole society, the church and the justice system. He does not spare the prejudgment and behavior of every social class, mostly the dominant class, to defend his opinion about the lack of humanity in the French prisons for the prisoners waiting for the executioner. In my country, we do not have capital sentence, but in my opinion this great movie is manipulative, using very sad and unfair examples to justify the position of the author. I agree that children and those that need should be assisted by the State but in spite of being fruit of the society, criminals destroy families and must pay for their crime the same way the families grieve their beloved loss. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Somos Todos Assassinos" ("We Are All Assassins")
Reviewed by writers_reign 8 / 10

We Are All The Richer For Having This Film

Reviewed by dbdumonteil 8 / 10

We want to live!

That was the second film dealing with justice in France in Cayatte's long career (1942-1978).François Truffaut was always putting him down,but won't you forget ,for a while,the new wavelet and their notorious fusty Cahiers du Cinema ?Cayatte is a name to be reckoned with.If Richard Pottier("Meurtres" ) tackled euthanasia the same year (1950) as he did ("Justice est Faite")Cayatte was the first in France (and in the world?) to devote an entire film to express his disgust of death penalty.Think of it! It was 1952!It took a lot of guts and a lot of faith to dare such a thing at a time when lex talionis and punishing the criminal as a deterrent to others were the golden rules."What example?" the doctors says "the executions were no longer public as if they were ashamed of what they did" The first part of the movie may seem weak by today's standards .But it's necessary to introduce René (a never better Marcel Mouloudji)and his background.In his own particular way,he predates Malle's "Lacombe Lucien" hero .One fights for the Resistance,and the other is a collaborator.But both are ignorant poor -René is even illiterate .René lives in a place where "dump" is too beautiful a word.His mother is a shrew who has always had one too many;his sister has been a whore since she was twelve ;his little brother is bound to be a delinquent. Another man sentenced to death has killed his baby girl: but he was exhausted after a hard day of work and as he couldn't sleep because his daughter was crying in their tiny flat he lost his mind.Not a judge can comprehend.Only a woman in a cafe knows better:if that man had been decently housed -just have a look at the lawyer's bourgeois parents' luxury house ,where's there's a "golden dish with every wish"- nothing would have happened cause that depressed man was a good father.Cayatte puts the whole society on trial,particularly the bourgeois (the lawyer's father just looks up and pretends that he does not see when his son brings the little brother home)In his next movie,"Avant le Deluge" which is to be recommended ,Cayatte would denounce the bourgeois who do not know of the meaning of the word "responsibility".By its second part ,the movie becomes almost unbearable,even today.Cayatte wanted his movie to be so.Nothing is spared the viewer: the condemned persons cell,where in the small hours they suddenly become frightened :is this dawn THE dawn?Will THEY come?Is IT in the prison? ( the word "guillotine " is never uttered ).Cayatte's directing becomes masterful when he depicts the corridor where a secret ceremony happens early early in the morning.Those men in grey suddenly enter the room and sweetly say "it's your turn ,son!arm up with courage!"As often in Cayatte's work ,the screenplay is a bit muddled (the Corse episode is a bit too much,but at least it allows us to see great actress Madame Sylvie in two too brief scenes)but until the very end his "hope against hope" will not leave him down.As the lawyer waits for an eventual President's pardon for René ,there's a moving tracking in on his little brother's face .Cayatte does not want to comfort his audience,and this conclusion is the best he could think of.Time has passed.In 1981,François Mitterrand abolished death penalty in France.One should never forget that men like Cayatte helped along the way .His movie was certainly as important as any of Godard's farces.Like this?try these....I want to live (Robert Wise,1958)La vie,l'amour ,la mort (Claude Lelouch,1969)Deux hommes dans la ville (Jose Giovanni,1972)Le pullover rouge (Michel Drach,1979)Dead man walking (Tim Robbins ,1996)
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