An exciting, funny, innovative, and brilliant effort from one of France's most prolific playwrights and filmmakers, Sacha Guitry. Considered to be Guitry's masterpiece, THE STORY OF A CHEAT is told to the audience by the cheat (Guitry, as usual, playing the role) himself, as he writes
his memoirs in a Parisian cafe, while on the screen we see the events he is speaking of, acted out without dialogue. All we get to hear is Guitry's witty commentary. His life story begins with the first time he is caught being a cheat, an act which gets him sent to his room without supper. In a
stroke of luck, however, his entire family eat poison mushrooms that evening and die. Thus ...
Released:
1936
Rated:
NR
Length:
83 mins