Elevator to the Gallows

• Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
• Thriller, Crime, Drama
• France
• 1958
• Director: Louis Malle
• 91 min
• 35mm
• Original Version with english Subtitles
• with Jean-Claude Brialy, Gisèle Grandpré, Gérard Darrieu

The former foreign legionnaire Julien murders the husband of his lover Florence in his office and makes the act look like suicide. When he remembers that he forgot something, he wants to go back, but gets stuck in the building's elevator because the electricity is cut off for the night. While he tries to free himself, the desperate Florence runs through the streets of Paris in search of her lover.

Loan of the film print with kind support of Institut Français.