
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.

as René Le Guen

as Gino Bollini

as Dr. Albert Dutoit

as Bauchet

as Philippe Arnaud

as Michel Le Guen

as Yvonne Le Guen (version française)

as L'avocat général

as L'avocat du tribunal pour enfants

as Albert Pichon

as Le colonel instructeur

as L'avocat de Bauchet

as Girard, l'homme dans la cabine téléphonique

as La chiffonnière

as Un inspecteur

as La femme de Charles

as L'épouse de Bauchet

as Francine Saulnier

as Biribi

as Agnès

as Léon

as La mère Le Guen

as Noblet

as Docteur Detouche (version française)

as La mère de la petite fille

as Saulnier

as La femme suédoise


as Le procureur

as Le détenu-coiffeur

as Rachel

as Un gardien

as L'amie de Dutoit

as Charles

as Le directeur de la Santé

as Docteur Detouche (version italienne)

as Madame Arnaud

as Malingré

as Le père Simon

as Le gendarme

as Yvonne Le Guen (version italienne)

as L'abbé Roussard

as La mère d'Agnès

as Laetitia Bollini

as Le pianiste

as Fredo

as P'tit Louis

as Maître Mousset

as Mr. Arnaud

as Un garde (uncredited)

as Un taulard (uncredited)

as Un taulard (uncredited)

as Le chauffeur (uncredited)

as Un monsieur (uncredited)

as L'agent (uncredited)