Derrière la Façade

Behind the Facade (French: Derrière la façade) is a 1939 French drama film directed by Georges Lacombe and Yves Mirande and starring Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry and André Lefaur. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. It was shot at the Epinay Studios in Paris

Plot:

The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, a crippled blind man and his daughter, an eccentric knife thrower, a shoplifter (and proud of it!), a bourgeois lady who has a bone to pick with a gigolo, a mistress who cheats on her lover, not forgetting the caretaker and a soldier in love.

Cast:

Lucien Baroux as Le commissaire Boucheron

Jules Berry as Alfrédo D'Avila

André Lefaur as Corbeau

Gaby Morlay as Gaby

Elvire Popesco as Madame Rameau

Michel Simon as Picking

Betty Stockfeld as L'anglaise

Erich von Stroheim as Eric

Simone Berriau as Lydia

Missia as Joséphine Picking

Raymond Segard as Robert Bernier

Marcel Orluc as Gérard Bernier

Jean Daurand as Le télégraphiste

Elmire Vautier as Marie, l'habilleuse de Lydia

Lina Darwils as Une locataire

Robert Ozanne as Le brigadier