Diabolique(Movie, 1954)

Name: Diabolique
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Released: 1954
Duration: T01:57:00
Rating: 3.9

Original title: "Les Diaboliques" (French/FR)

1h 57min | Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Rating: 3.9/5 (with 387 votes)

Les Diaboliques (French: [le djabɔlik], released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends) is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse and Charles Vanel. It is based on the 1952 novel She Who Was No More (Celle qui n'était plus) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The story blends elements of thriller and horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband's mistress who conspire to murder the man. It was the 10th highest-grossing film of the year in France, with a total of 3,674,380 admissions. The film also received the 1954 Louis Delluc Prize. Clouzot, after finishing The Wages of Fear (1953), optioned the screenplay rights, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making th... ()

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Awards & Nominations for Diabolique

Louis Delluc Prize

About Diabolique

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

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Trailer for Diabolique + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:50)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Trailers From Hell (Featurette) | Three Reasons (Featurette) | Les diaboliques (1955) bande annonce (Trailer, FR) | Teuflischen, Die - Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: France

Shot in: Paris

Plays in: France

Based on: "She Who Was No More" (find it on Amazon)

Derivative works/Adaptions: "Diabolique" (movie, 1996)

Made by: Filmsonor, Véra Films

Original language: French (FR)

Spoken languages: English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 11/21/1955 (World premiere: 01/29/1955)

Cast: Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Jacques Hilling, Véra Clouzot, Robert Dalban, Jean Lefebvre, Camille Guérini, Christian Brocard, Dominique Brun-Maaoui, Georges Chamarat, Georges Poujouly, Henri Coutet, Jacques Varennes, Jean Brochard, Jean Clarieux, Jean Témerson, Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Jimmy Urbain, Johnny Hallyday, Madeleine Suffel, Noël Roquevert, Pierre Larquey, Thérèse Dorny, Yves-Marie Maurin

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Producer: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Screenwriter: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Boileau-Narcejac

Film Editor: Madeleine Gug

Director of Photography: Armand Henri Julien Thirard

Composer: Georges Van Parys

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"De bezetenen"

"室情杀案"

"魔鬼双姝"

"Dábelské zeny"

"The Fiends"

"Oi diavologynaikes"

"Demoni"

"Shayateen"

"Sheytan sefatan"

"Akuma no yôna onna"

"Apsėstieji"

"Demonen"

"Det onde spill"

"Zlobnici"

"Demona"

"The Devils"

Keywords: missing body, frightened woman, hitchcockian, abusive husband, wife, mistress, philanderer, morgue, teacher, plan gone wrong, surprise ending, headmaster, boys boarding school, lover (female), french noir

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Diabolique(Movie, 1954)

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