Crimson Curtain

Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.

Drama

Michel Barsacq

(Pierrette's youngest son)

Edmond Beauchamp

(The actor who plays King Duncan)

Pierre Brasseur

(Ludovic Arn / Macbeth)

Michel Simon

(Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo)

Paul Barge

(The bistro)

Monelle Valentin

(Aurélia Nobli / Lady Macbeth)

Jean Brochard

(Chief Inspector)

Olivier Hussenot

(Deputy Inspector Gobinet)

Lucien Blondeau

Louis Bugette

Daniel Cauchy

(Léon)

Gérard Darrieu

(A stagehand in the theater)

Jacques Denoël

(An actor)

Jacques Dufilho

(An actor)

Michel Etcheverry

(An actor)

Henri Gaultier

(The doctor on duty)

Madeleine Geoffroy

(An actor)

Gabriel Gobin

Françoise Goléa

(The lover on the bench)

Pierre Goutas

(An actor)

Michel Herbault

(Laurent, an actor)

Katherine Kath

(A witch in Macbeth)

Benoîte Labb

(A witch in Macbeth)

Paul Laurent

Robert Le Béal

(An actor)

Serge Lecointe

(Pierrette's eldest son)

Robert Le Fort

Robert Lombard

(An actor)

François Marié

(The lover on the bench)

Paul Mathos

(Garnier)

Geneviève Morel

(Pierrette, l'habilleuse)

Jean-Paul Moulinot

Hubert Noël

André Numès

(Police Constable Vernier)

Marcel Pérès

(The machinist who makes the wind)

Jacques Rispal

(The actor with the shaved head)

Christian Simon

(The young actor who plays Fléance)

Georgette Talazac

(The opener who knits)

Catherine Toth

(A witch in Macbeth)

André Versini

(A radio journalist)

Noël Roquevert

(Sigurd)

Jacques Beauvais

(A spectator at the theater (uncredited))

Charles Bouillaud

(The policeman at the police station (uncredited))

Georges Demas

(A spectator at the theater / An extra in Macbeth (uncredited))

Rudy Lenoir

(An actor (uncredited))

Raymond Pierson

(An extra in Macbeth / A spectator at the theater (uncredited))

Louis Saintève

(A spectator at the theater (uncredited))

Françoise Soulié

((uncredited))

Eugène Stuber

(A soldier in Macbeth (uncredited))