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The Stranger

Play trailer Poster for The Stranger 1967,  1h 45m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 46% 13 Reviews Tomatometer 71% 250+ Ratings Popcornmeter
46% Tomatometer 13 Reviews 71% Popcornmeter 250+ Ratings
In this intense adaptation of the classic Albert Camus novel, Arthur Meursault is a bored clerical worker in the 1930s Algeria who is completely isolated from his surroundings. His alienation leads to sudden, mystifying attacks of violence, and eventually culminates in his arbitrary shooting of a man on a beach. In the ensuing trial, the full extent of Meursault's existential crisis becomes alarmingly clear to judge, jury and prosecutor.

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Alexander Walker London Evening Standard Mar 3, 2022
Visconti makes the spiritual irony of the film apparent behind the mundane facts of life: but he makes both totally absorbing. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Apr 7, 2015
4/4
Visconti, like Camus, realizes that the meaning of The Stranger is not to be found in the plot but in the mood. The mood is ennui, the dominant emotion of a man who hardly cares enough to tell his own story. Go to Full Review
TIME Magazine Apr 7, 2015
Visconti's film of The Stranger follows the action of the novel with hardly a comma missing -- and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. Go to Full Review
Penelope Mortimer Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2022
It is, in parts. a little too highly coloured, too glossy. Nevertheless it is, I think, a very fine picture and more than worthy of Camus's "Outsider," from which it is adapted. Go to Full Review
Michael J. Casey Boulder Weekly May 7, 2020
4.5/5
It's a stroke of genius that nothing in "Lo Straniero" feels scripted, not even Meursault's final confession. Go to Full Review
Gene Youngblood Los Angeles Free Press Feb 3, 2020
Literature and cinema - incompatible but habitual bedfellows - are fused flawlessly in this adaptation of Camus' existentialist masterpiece. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Luchino Visconti

Director

Marcello Mastroianni

Arthur Meursault

Anna Karina

Marie Cardona

Bernard Blier

Defense Counsel

Georges Wilson

Examining Magistrate

Bruno Cremer

Priest

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The Stranger

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Movie Info

Synopsis In this intense adaptation of the classic Albert Camus novel, Arthur Meursault is a bored clerical worker in the 1930s Algeria who is completely isolated from his surroundings. His alienation leads to sudden, mystifying attacks of violence, and eventually culminates in his arbitrary shooting of a man on a beach. In the ensuing trial, the full extent of Meursault's existential crisis becomes alarmingly clear to judge, jury and prosecutor.
Director
Luchino Visconti
Producer
Dino De Laurentiis, Pietro Notarianni
Screenwriter
Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Georges Conchon, Luchino Visconti, Albert Camus
Production Co
Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Canadian French
Runtime
1h 45m
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