The Spies
The plot concerns a doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital, who is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Casts & Crew
Curd Jürgens
Peter Ustinov
O.E. Hasse
Sam Jaffe
Paul Carpenter
Véra Clouzot
Martita Hunt
Gérard Séty
Clément Harari
Gabrielle Dorziat
Louis Seigner
Jean Brochard
Bernard La Jarrige
Daniel Emilfork
Sacha Pitoëff
Fernand Sardou
Also Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Return to Life (French: Retour à la vie) is a 1949 French drama film directed by Georges Lampin, André Cayatte, Henri-Georges Clouzot and Jean Dréville. It was entered into the 1949 Cannes Film Festival.
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and E.A. Dupont and began scripting French versions of German films at Berlin’s UFA studios.