City: Mumbai
Location: Alliance Française auditorium
Date: Mon, 2012/09/24 – 6:30pm
L’assassin habite au 21, by Georges Clouzot (84’)
Dapper Inspector Vorobechik (‘Wens’ for short) is assigned the case of a serial killer who leaves a calling card with the name Monsieur Durand on his victims. Wens’ mistress, struggling actress Mila Malou, determines to get publicity for herself by helping him. Learning that Durand is one of the eccentric tenants of a boarding house at No. 21 Avenue Junot, Wens takes a room in the guise of a Protestant minister; only to be followed by Mila who hardly seems like a minister’s wife! Suspects are arrested, but while each is in jail, there’s another murder…