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Bertal, directeur de théâtre, homme particulièrement odieux avec ses partenaires de scènes et l’équipe technique, est assassiné dans sa loge avant une représentation de Macbeth. Or, la police découvre petit à petit que le meurtre s’est opéré de la même manière que dans la pièce de Shakespeare…

Crimson Curtain (1952)
84 min
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.