Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

• Rome-Paris Films
• C. C. Champion
• Charles Denner
• Michèle Morgan
• Danielle Darrieux
• Hildegard Knef
• Juliette Mayniel
• Stéphane Audran
• Catherine Rouvel
• Françoise Lugagne