La Tête d'un homme
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La tête d'un homme is a 1933 French crime film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Harry Baur, Valéry Inkijinoff, Gaston Jacquet and Gina Manès. It is an adaptation of the 1931 novel A Battle of Nerves by Georges Simenon, featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret. It was the third film in cinema history to feature the Maigret character.[3] It was remade in 1950 as The Man on the Eiffel Tower. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch. Inspector Maigret, investigating the odd circumstances surrounding the killing of a wealthy American woman in Paris. Every bit Baur’s equal is the Russian émigré actor Valéry Inkijinoff, cast as a reptilian, nihilistic medical student.
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