The Passerby ( La Passante du Sans-Souci )

The Passerby (DVD) (*)

$20.99

Original Title: La Passante du Sans-Souci
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jacques Rouffio

Written By:
Joseph Kessel (story)
Jacques Kirsner (screenplay)

Actors:
Romy Schneider ..... Elsa Wiener/Lina Baumstein
Michel Piccoli ..... Max Baumstein
Helmut Griem ..... Michel Wiener
Dominique Labourier ..... Charlotte Maupas
Gérard Klein ..... Maurice Bouillard
Mathieu Carrière ..... Ruppert/Frederico
Jacques Martin ..... Marcel
Wendelin Werner ..... Young Max
Marcel Bozonnet ..... Mercier
Christiane Cohendy ..... Helene Nolin
Pierre Michaël ..... Me Jouffroy
Véronique Silver ..... Presidente du tribunal
Maria Schell ..... Anna Helwig

Synopsis:

A man's tragic past leads him to take justice into his own hands in this troubling look at life in Europe after WWII. Max Baumstein (Michel Piccoli) is a well-known human rights activist and avowed pacifist who, to the shock and puzzlement of many, murders a politician from South America. As Baumstein goes to trial, it is revealed that his victim was in fact a Nazi war criminal who ordered the deaths of thousands of people - including Baumstein's parents. In flashback, Max recalls the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France, and he remembers Elsa Weiner (Romy Schneider), a woman who helped save his life and struggled to free her husband Michel (Helmut Griem) from a concentration camp after he was condemned for publishing anti-fascist literature. La Passante Du Sans-Souci marked the final screen appearance of actress Romy Schneider, who played both Elsa and Baumstein's wife Lina; Schneider died of heart failure shortly after it was released.

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 29 September, 2009.

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