---
title: 'We Are All Murderers (1952)'
type: 'film'
director: 'André Cayatte'
released: '1952-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 110
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'France'
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/we-are-all-murderers-1952'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044977/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# We Are All Murderers (1952)

1952 · 110 min · Drama · France, Italy

Original title: Nous sommes tous des assassins

## Synopsis

We Are All Murderers is a 1952 French-Italian crime drama film written and directed by André Cayatte and starring Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin and Claude Laydu. It was shot at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier. It tells the story of René, a young man from the slums, trained by the French Resistance in World War II to kill Germans. He continues to kill long after the war has ended, as it is all he knows. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize.

## Credits

- **Director:** [André Cayatte](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-cayatte)
- **Screenplay:** [André Cayatte](https://cinepixo.com/people/andre-cayatte), [Charles Spaak](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-spaak)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Raymond Legrand](https://cinepixo.com/people/raymond-legrand)
- **Director of Photography:** [Jean Bourgoin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-bourgoin)

## Cast

- [Denise Péronne](https://cinepixo.com/people/denise-peronne)
- [Jacques Morel](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-morel)
- [Henri Cote](https://cinepixo.com/people/henri-cote)
- [Pierre Duncan](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-duncan)
- [Jacques Marin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jacques-marin)
- [Éliane Monceau](https://cinepixo.com/people/eliane-monceau)
- [Paul Barge](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-barge)
- [Julien Verdier](https://cinepixo.com/people/julien-verdier)
- [Paul Faivre](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-faivre)
- [Yvette Etiévant](https://cinepixo.com/people/yvette-etievant)
- [Georges Poujouly](https://cinepixo.com/people/georges-poujouly)
- [Joe Davray](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-davray)
- [Pierre Fromont](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-fromont)
- [François Vibert](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-vibert)
- [Juliette Faber](https://cinepixo.com/people/juliette-faber)

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