LIFT TO THE SCAFFOLD
by Louis Malle
synopsis
Florence Carala and her lover, Julien Tavernier, want to murder her husband - Julien's boss - by faking his suicide. But after Julien's killed him, and had left, he remembers he's forgotten the rope outside the window which could implicate him, and he returns to the building to remove it.
international title: | Elevator to the Gallows |
original title: | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud |
country: | France |
year: | 1958 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Louis Malle |
film run: | 91' |
release date: | FR 29/01/1958, TR 29/01/1958, DE 29/08/1958, IT 19/09/1958, PT 04/05/1959, SE 11/05/1959, UK 03/1960, FI 04/11/1960, ES 23/09/1966, CH 10/08/2003, GR 12/10/2004, NL 07/07/2005, DK 20/02/2020 |
screenplay: | Roger Nimier, Louis Malle, Noël Calef |
cast: | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly |
cinematography by: | Henri Decaë |
film editing: | Léonide Azar |
art director: | Jean Mandaroux, Rino Mondellini |
producer: | Jean Thuillier |