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Barrabas (film)

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Barrabas
Directed byLouis Feuillade
Written byLouis Feuillade
Produced byLouis Feuillade
StarringFernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
CinematographyMaurice Champreux , Georges Lafont, Léon Morizet
Edited byMaurice Champreux
Release date
  • 1920 (1920)
CountryFrance
LanguageSilent film

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

Plot

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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

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Episodes

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No.French TitleRuntime
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.
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