Strange Inheritance or The Traveller on All Saints' Day (French: Le voyageur de la Toussaint, Italian: Il viaggiatore d'Ognissanti) is a 1943 French-Italian mystery film directed by Louis Daquin and starring Assia Noris, Jules Berry, Gabrielle Dorziat and Guillaume de Sax.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same title by Georges Simenon.[2][3]
| Strange Inheritance | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Louis Daquin |
| Written by | Marcel Aymé |
| Based on | Strange Inheritance by Georges Simenon |
| Produced by | Robert Chabert Marcel Roux |
| Starring | Assia Noris Jules Berry Gabrielle Dorziat |
| Cinematography | André Thomas |
| Edited by | Suzanne de Troeye |
| Music by | Roger Desormière Jean Wiener |
Production companies | Francinex Consorzio EIA |
| Distributed by | Films Emka CEIAD |
Release date | 8 April 1943 |
Running time | 102 minutes |
| Countries | France Italy |
| Language | French |
The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert. It was made as a co-production between Occupied France and Fascist Italy.[4]
On a misty November day a young man makes a returns to his hometown of La Rochelle following the death of his Uncle, who has left him his entire fortune. He finds his upper-class family resent him because his parents were both music hall entertainers. He begins to investigate the circumstances of his uncle's suspicious death.
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