Obsession is a 1954 French language motion picture crime drama directed by Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...

 who co-wrote screenplay with Antoine Blondin

Antoine Blondin

Antoine Blondin was a French writer.He belonged to the literary group called the Hussards. He was also a sports columnist in L'Équipe. Blondin also wrote under the name Tenorio.-Biography:...

, Roland Laudenbach and Gian Luigi Rondi, based on story "Silent as the Grave" by Cornell Woolrich

Cornell Woolrich

Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich was an American novelist and short story writer who sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley....

. The film stars Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan

Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....

 and Raf Vallone

Raf Vallone

Raffaele "Raf" Vallone was an Italian footballer, actor and an international film star.Born in Tropea, Calabria, the son of a lawyer, Vallone attended Liceo classico Cavour in Turin, and studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm...

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It tells the story of a couple forming a circus trapeze, and they are involved in a murder case.

Cast

• Michèle Morgan : Hélène Giovanni
• Raf Vallone : Aldo Giovanni
• Marthe Mercadier : Arlette Bernardin
• Jean Gaven : Alexandre Buisson
• Albert Duvaleix : Barnet
• Robert Dalban : Inspecteur Chardin
• Louis Seigner : L'avocat général
• Olivier Hussenot : Louis Bernardin
• Jacques Castelot : Me Ritter
• Jean Toulout : Le président des assises
• Dora Doll : L'entraîneuse
• Raphaël Patorni : Bertrand
• Martine Alexis : Olga
• Albert Michel : Le réptionniste de l'hôtel rouennais
• Pierre Moncorbier : Le secrétaire de Chardin
• Aimée Fontenay : La chanteuse au trapèze
• Yves Rozec : Trapéziste

External links

• Obsession at Films de France