Barrabas (film) explained

Barrabas
Director:Louis Feuillade
Producer:Louis Feuillade
Starring:Fernand Herrmann, Édouard Mathé
Cinematography:Maurice Champreux, Georges Lafont, Léon Morizet
Editing:Maurice Champreux
Country:France
Language:Silent film

Barrabas is a 1920 French silent crime thriller film serial directed and written by Louis Feuillade.

Plot

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the brutal leader of an underground gang who causes mayhem and destruction to the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring Strelitz to justice for the purpose of revenge, after his father was wrongly guillotined for the murder of Laure d'Hérigny, a mistress of a missing American millionaire. Later Claude Varèse's sister, Françoise, is then abducted by the evil Dr Lucius, one of Barrabas' henchmen.

Cast