Barrabas (film)

For other uses, see Barabbas (disambiguation).

Barrabas
Directed by	Louis Feuillade
Written by	Louis Feuillade
Produced by	Louis Feuillade
Starring	Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Cinematography	Maurice Champreux , Georges Lafont, Léon Morizet
Edited by	Maurice Champreux
Release date	1920
Country	France
Language	Silent film

Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film serial directed and written by Louis Feuillade.

Plot

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the brutal leader of an underground gang who causes mayhem and destruction to the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was wrongly guillotined for the murder of Laure d'Hérigny, a mistress of a missing American millionaire. Later Claude Varèse's sister, Françoise, is then abducted by the evil Dr Lucius, one of Barrabas' henchmen.

Cast

• Fernand Herrmann ... L'avocat Jacques Varèse
• Édouard Mathé ... Raoul de Nérac
• Gaston Michel ... Rudolph Strélitz
• Georges Biscot ... Biscotin
• Blanche Montel ... Françoise Varèse
• Jeanne Rollette ... Biscotine
• Albert Mayer ... Rougier
• Edmond Bréon ... Dr. Lucius
• Lugane ... Simne Delpierre
• Lyne Stanka ... Laure d'Herigny
• Violette Jyl ... Noëlle Maupré
• Laurent Morléas ... Laugier
• Olinda Mano ... La petite Odette

Episodes

No.	French Title	Runtime
1	"Prologue; La Maîtresse du Juif Errant"	77 mins.
2	"La Justice des hommes"	39 mins.
3	"La Villa des Glycines"	40 mins.
4	"Le Stigmate"	39 mins.
5	"Nöelle Maupré"	39 mins.
6	"La Fille du condamné"	39 mins.
7	"Les Ailes de Satan"	39 mins.
8	"Le Manoir mystérieux"	40 mins.
9	"L'Otage"	40 mins.
10	"L'Oubliette"	38 mins.
11	"Le Revenant"	38 mins.
12	"Le Justice"	38 mins.

External links

• Barrabas at IMDb