The Passerby

The Passerby

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Release Date

4/14/1982

Runtime

110 mins

Genres

Overview

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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Homepage

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A taut courtroom examination of hypocrisy and hidden trauma, where a principled human rights defender's shocking crime unravels decades of buried secrets. The film probes whether justice and vengeance can ever be reconciled.

Mood

TenseContemplativeMournful

Themes

RedemptionRevengeMortalityIdentityMemory

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticFormalist

Structure

Framed flashback

Heads up

Graphic violence

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